In last week's wallet card photo, I noted that there was a painted sign on the side of the car dealership-turned-movie theater-turned office building. Here is that sign, which if you zoom in, has the word "clothes" still visible on the lower right. That sign was for Scheff's Work Clothes, which was next door to the old Nassau Garage, in the space occupied by the Total Wireless and it's neighbors in the photo.
In the pavement at the entrance to one of the stores, you can still see the sign for Scheff's, which moved out of this location in 1978.
Here is a photo of this location in 1960. As you can see, the word "clothes" is the same. However, when you look at the current sign, the large word ends with an N, so it's not Scheff's. The business that owned Scheff's was called Carlson-Scheff's, but I'm not sure that's Carlson either. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out what store came after Scheff's, but I'm guessing that store may have painted over "Scheff's" but kept "clothes".
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