Your Letters: Jan. 29, 2021
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Old downtown
Memories of a bustling business district in downtown Victorville came flooding back as I read in the Jan. 22 edition of yet another fire-damaged building on Seventh Street being demolished and disappearing as if it were never there.
In the early 1970s, my husband, Jim, and I opened the first bicycle store in the valley on lower Seventh. We were surrounded by full-of-life enterprises that still bring thoughts of sunshine to mind. The Downtown Café, Jantz Jewelers, Lee s Chinese-American Restaurant, Powell s Appliances, Cotton s TV (who could forget Pinky Cotton?), Layne s Women s Apparel, Western Outdoor Hardware, Victorville Chamber of Commerce. The list is long and nostalgic. Around the corner, on D Street, was Cal s Pawn Shop. Does anyone remember seeing Neil Diamond in “The Jazz Singer” walk past there and look in the windows?