Upstairs Men's Clothing Store is at 275 S Main Street - the one would have been next to the designated theater in 2-10-20 as shown in an ad... Ran by Frank and Sam... At that time, the Kinema was opening....
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/slh16,58685 Franks opened a men's clothing, furnishings, on March 28, 1900, 128 So. Main - 3 years later moved to 154 Main Street 1903, 2 years later in 1905 moved to Portland and opened amen's store on March 23, 1905... Became Myers and Franks? Ad in SL says Dec. 1911, Franks sold women's Dept on 18 -20 E 1st St. and expanded the shoe dept. Which is Franks on Main? Mehesy, furrier and theater owner builds a building next to the Clift building and the cigar store in 1919??
http://www.utahheritagefoundation.com/images/stories/docs/tours/ms.tour.pdf Walking tour of Main Street in the 1900s CALLAWAY, HOOCK; FRANCIS Visit Our New Store, 66 Upper Main Street CROCKERY, CHIM, GLASSWARE, ELECTROLIERS, Silverware. Lamps, etc. THE PALACE MEAT MARKET 263-265 s. Main WE HAVE OUR OWN ARTIFICIAL REFRIGERAT ROLLIE MILTON GRAY. Franks' Clothing on Main next to Meshesy's Theater - above in pic At the age of eighteen years he determined that he would learn the mercantile business and, starting upon the search for a position, at length entered the store of which Frank Aikin was manager. This was an extensive establishment of Perryville, Kansas, but he did not make much headway there and removed to De Kalb, Missouri, where he secured a situation in the store of John S. Harmon, known as the "Missouri laugher." After two years spent in Mr. Harmon's employ he entered the service of a clothing firm in Atchison, Kansas,
operating under the name of L. Frank. There he received only twenty-five dollars a month at the beginning and from that sum had to pay for room, board and clothing. He continued in the house for four years and then the offer of a better salary in a larger store caused him to change his position. Fourteen years were spent in the new connection, during which time his industry and careful expenditure enabled him to acquire a sufficient capital to engage in business on his own account. Accordingly, on the
28th of March, 1900, he opened a men's clothing, furnishings and hat store in Salt Lake City, Utah, at No. 128 South Main street. The enterprise was fairly successful from the beginning and three years later more commodious quarters were secured at a better location, No. 154 Main street. His success in the new store was very flattering, but after two years Mr. Gray found it necessary to leave Salt Lake because of his wife's health, and in searching for a location on the Pacific coast decided upon Portland. He then secured a lease in the Blumauer building, at Nos. 269 and 271 Morrison street, and equipped what was probably the finest store on the coast at the time. He opened his doors for business on the 23d of March, 1905, and the establishment found immediate favor with the people, a men's general clothing business being conducted with gratifying nrosperity for four years. At the end of that time Mr. Gray decided to establish an exclusive shop for men's and women's tailored clothes, such as would be a pride to the country, and his present establishment is the result.
