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- C.D. Smith Drug Company (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- A drug store founded by C.D. Smith in 1900, the same year that Smith became one of the youngest pharmacists ever registered in Colorado. His first store was located at Fifth and Main Streets in Grand Junction. According to a history published by the C.D. Smith Company, that intersection was then considered “the principal corner in the town.” He owned seven drug stores by 1907. The company became a wholesale drug supplier by 1910 and had a new building that suited the shift in operations. Things traditionally sold by drug stores, like candy and drinks, were in the basement. The upper floor of the business contained drugs and a laboratory, where the company created things like fertilizer. When Harry Brown isolated an oil shale byproduct for use as a fertilizer and insect repellent, the company manufactured both a salve and fertilizer. The U.S. Government halted the manufacture, fearing that the product might induce illness. Smith divested of his retail stores, and encouraged his store managers to become store owners. By 1930, his workforce had expanded to 33 people. His sons, Burrell, Claud and Sterling, all worked for the company. In 1935, the company needed a larger building, and Smith built one at the corner of 5th Street and Ute Avenue. The company was still active as of 1980, and took great pride in utilizing computers and other recent advances in its operations. *Photograph of C.D. Smith Co.'s second building, built 1910, in its first location at 5th and Main Streets.
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- Callahan-Edfast Mortuary (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- An early Grand Junction, Colorado mortuary that began as Griffins and Stowe Mortuary in 1910. Ray Younker and Thomas T. Callahan took over the business sometime shortly after 1910, and it became known as Younker and Callahan Mortuary. In 1914, Thomas Callahan bought his partner out, and the name became Callahan Mortuary for the next 60 years. Callahan retired in 1944 and his son William "Bill" Callahan, who had been working as a mortician there, become the funeral director and owner. The business currently operates under the name Callahan-Edfast Mortuary. According to local historian David Sundal, Callahan Mortuary's business consisted mostly of a Catholic clientele, while Martin Mortuary had mostly a Protestant clientele, and Krohn Funeral home had a Jewish and agnostic clientele.