Show Pioneer Mercantile Firm Continues Progress With Shopping Center r a z r 4 h r L Kv MA 3 ET 1 I j t v- v 4 I I l ti ir I iN f i ti t iF i- i F I I I r r k MILLERS MILLER'S SHOPPING Grand CENTER CENTER Grand Opening In the various businesses and a n big time Is planned Millers Miller's has grown dramatically during the past pastIn I In Millers Miller's new shopping center on Main Street will be held this weekend forty years in Moab under the guidance of Ralph J Miller Sr inset It all aU started in 1955 1933 Id to April of f that year Miller Millers Super Market Market Market Mar Mar- ket moved from tom the old ld store on Main find and C Center to their new location at he the extreme southend south southend end of Moab beginning the tremendous tre trek migration of businesses business e es along the highway south from Moab in Jn the past pMt several years When the move to the new v supermarket was WM made the uranium uranium uranium ura ura- boom barm had ended At that IMme the potash development had not yet ye-t started and the fx- fx ex ex- Mansion into the new business fac facility was a n real vote of or community community com coma confidence by a firm fInn that had been serving Moab with w groceries and general merchandise dise Oise since the early This weekend Moab residents Will wilt be Invited to take part InGrand in inGrand inGrand Grand Opening festivities at the newly completed Millers Miller's Shopping Shopping Shop Shop- ping Center a 11 mammoth th retail facility built bum around the supermarket supermarket supermarket super super- market now housing Nationwide Finance Millers Miller's Clothing CloUting and Dry G Goods Chucks Chuck's Barber BarberShop BarberShop BarberShop Shop Nile Day Laundry Center Cooter Bettys Betty's Beauty Shop and the theMo Mo Moab b Chamber of Commerce of of- fi flee fice Plans PIans for construction of this shopping center were announced in Moab by Ralph J. J Miller Sr last year Construction has hM been underway for several months and all aU the new v businesses have been open and running for the past several weeks Millers Miller's had Its beginning as Millers Miller's Co The business basically basically bas bas- basically a family organization was housed in a two-story two building oo on Main and 1st North That building was destroyed by fire in the early and Millers Miller's purchased the business and building of Moab's other pioneer general merchandise company Cooper Cooper Mar tin Co and moved into the Main Maki and Center location location loca loea- tion Uon 1 During the Uie early part pert of or the ur uranium boom baoni Millers Miller's built the Uranium Building and expanded store facilities into that section sec tC tion bons ground floor But Bu t expanding business forced even more drastic action and In 1958 the general merchandise firm was split into several separate sep sep- ante arate corporations The groceries grocer grocer- ies tes department bec became Millers Miller's Super Market on South Main operated by R Ralph Miller 1 Jr The hardware d department became be be- came crone a part of or the Super Market Market Mar Mar- ket t. under direction of or G G. A A. Larsen Millers Miller's Clothing end Dry Goods Goals under management of or Harley Johnson and Ray Tibbetts Tibbetts Tib Tib- bet betts l occupied the older portion por pork tion of the Main and Cooter property property property pro pro- perty and Millers Miller's Furniture and became the responsibility re of O. O L L. Buster Stewart and end occupied the Uranium Uranium Uran Uran- ium turn Building Ralph J. J Miller Inter Sr withdrew from rom active operation operation oper opera atlon of the end of t the business b and began the operation of ot R R. J J. M. M Investment Company The move into the new shopping shop ping center marks even more moree e expansion anMon for or the pioneering firm CInn Millers Miller's Clothing occupies now modern space in the center centers the supermarket company has now note purchased a 11 drug store which Is part of ot their operation and the furniture company has taken over all ati property at Main and Center Friday and Saturday festivities festivities ties in the new shopping center are sure to draw record crowds Special sales and gift garb merchandise merchandise dise disc are available and featured in every center store |