The South Side in 1929.
This series of four photographs was taken during 1929 and used to illustrate double-page spreads in the Chariton High School yearbook, The Charitonian, which introduced its sponsor advertising sections during 1930 and 1931. By the time the 1930 edition published, however, the southside had been substantially diminished by a major fire of February, that year, that destroyed the three-story Temple/Lincoln Theater building and the single-front building adjacent to it and gutted the almost-new Ritz Theater. Although both the Ritz and the building west of it had been rebuilt by 1930, apparently the yearbook staff preferred the earlier photo and used it again in 1931. Original images, if still extant, have not been located.
The West Side in 1929.
The North Side in 1929.
The East Side in 1929.
This must have been how Chariton looked when my parents, Everett and Wilma Bumbarger married and moved to there in 1932. Dad was a sign painter and one of his first regular painting jobs was to paint the movie billboards for the Ritz Theater. Later he built Bumbarger Neon Sign Shop located on Hwy 34 and N. 12th St. He retired in 1987 and the building was sold to HyVee.
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