Chicken Spinach Salad
with Fruit Bowl
Healthty Options Available
We Do Not Use MSG • Gluten-Free Options
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101 W. Church St., Weatherford, TX 76086 • 817-594-8717
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MAY 2016
215 N Main St., Weatherford, TX 76086 (817) 594-3333
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PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
so with these curved pews — each
one continues the gentle sweep of the
last.
They also had cushions made,
all having to be fashioned to exact
dimensions dictated by the centuryplus-old pews. Modern “sensibilities”
seem to require softer seating; but
many a Methodist and later funeralgoers sat in the bare-wood seating
during the entire Twentieth Century
… and more.
Also original to the building is
the ornate pressed-tin ceiling which
Plowman estimated received some
much-needed restoration in the
1950s. Wide-span ceiling fans were
removed. One of the key improvements just prior to the 1954 grand
opening of Galbreaith-Pickard was
the installation of a 15-ton watercooled Frigidaire cooling and heating
system. They chucked the antique
ceiling fans.
“It was really funny,” said Plowman. “Mr. Galbreaith had told my
dad to throw them all away and Dad
had thrown two of the three in the
dump, but before he threw away the
third one he thought: ‘You know,
this may still work.’” So he stashed
it away. In the 1970s Mr. Galbreaith
came across the huge fan while
cleaning out the basement. Today the
aged air-mover hangs in Plowman’s
mom’s house nearby.
The Galbreaith-Pickard president
has a keen sense of history and is
aware of modern society’s predilection for new development, which
often threatens historical properties.
He’s had offers to buy the North Elm
property, though none that would
comfortably relocate the business.
And if some day someone makes a
whopper of an offer, the too-good-topass-up kind, the old Couts Memorial building would not be part of the
deal.
“We would do everything we
could to take it with us. We’ve actually looked into relocating and having
the building picked up and moved,”
Plowman said. “It would not be a
cheap option. They would have to cut
that in to seven or eight pieces to get
it out of there. It would take someone
that really wanted the property to pay
that much, enough for us to seriously
entertain relocating.” The last offer
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