The second week of November 1924 was a bad week for Aldergrove residents. Two fires on two consecutive days did a fair bit of damage to a home and businesses in the downtown core. Note that Mr. Hamre's name is incorrect in the first story. From stories in The Place Between Volume 1, the Hamre house was the one to the east of the hotel. The butcher shop is seen to the west of what at the time of the fire was the telephone office, but when this photo was taken (1910), it was FJ Hart's Real Estate & Insurance office. It is now your #communitymuseum. The hotel in this photo burned down on 2 May 1929.
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The second week of November 1924 was a bad week...