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Show Sugar House Shop Begins 22nd Year Phil & Joe's Sport Shop at 1113 East 1st South Street celebrated cel-ebrated its 21st birthday. For all of those years it has been located at the same address, in the same building by the same partners. Phil recalls that when they opened shop on July 21, 1930, things weren't looking too bright with an economic depres sion hanging over their heads but after the first year they began be-gan to "get on their feet." Now every day, scores of people visit their shop and bring in bicycles, tricycles, lawn mowers and electrical fixtures to be repaired. The shop is filled with bikes and related wheels, leaving only a small aisle to the repair equipment in the rear, In fact, the building is so full it has bicycles hanging hang-ing from the ceilings and wall. The men also do gun smithing, smith-ing, string tennis rackets, repair fishing tackle and household appliances. ap-pliances. There is no way to count the boys and girls they have made happy because they could make their bike run again or because they mended a favorite toy. |