A slice of the pie

I won a gift certificate to Quatro's Pizza for correctly naming the businesses that had occupied the space where City Hall is now.

Golde's Store for Men, Tickers, International Fashion, Weisser Union Optical, Leslie's Shoes, Stereo Supermarket, Judo Institute, McNeill's Jewelry, Brown's Shoe Fit, Southern Barbecue, University Graphics, Atwood Drugs.

City Hall razed the buildings as part of a grandiose plan to build a Hotel Convention Center the size of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas* in the early '80's. Plans fell through, and eventually the current City Hall was constructed on the site--an aesthetically pleasing structure, with lovely people in it, but--leaving less place where businesses can sell stamps, milk, or keys, etc. Many more storefronts were destroyed by the railroad depot relocation.

*humorous exaggeration about the Caesar's Palace, but not about all of the viable store fronts that bit the dust of "downtown redevelopment, which turned out to be a rather substantial and successful land grab...and that's not counting "railroad depot relocation"

But hey, I got a medium meat-eaters pizza out of it--thanks to former City Manager Carroll Fry, and current City Planner, Bob Mahrt (who provided the list) and Uncle Q, Steve Payne, whose website at Quatros.com provided the question.