GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The photo that I am sharing with you is a family photo probably taken about 1919. The handsome fellow in the doorway of The New Grand is my paternal grandfather, Milo T. Brown, father of my father, Louis M. Brown.

Shortly after Milo and his brother, Luther Brown, ran this store, they opened Brown Brothers Furniture Company, located at 448 Main St. The recycling of the possessions of the human race has been in my family a long time. My sister, Becky, has operated Great American Antiques since the dawn of time. I have owned my own antiques store and still peddle some vintage fashions from time to time.

Before The New Grand, 122 S. Fifth was a restaurant, the building was built around 1911, and afterward it was The New Grand, the Firestone Store's warehouse, then John Rader's Plumbing Shop with Up-to Date-Cleaners being established next door to the south.

In 1938 it became the Hollywood Studio and Barbershop and stayed that way until after World War II when A. H. Hale and a widow, Mrs. Bernice Russell, opened it up as a restaurant again.

Mrs. Russell ran it until Earl Roper took it over and it became Ro-Vey's. I remember it as The Reverse R, owned and operated by Jack Ritter. The front of the building had a sign that was a – R BAR. You can still see part of the sign with the – over the word BAR. Then in the late '80s the Martinez family took it over and it became Chupiro's.

Last week in my article about Uranium Downs, I called John Antonopoulos crazy. He called me from Las Vegas to let me know he was no longer crazy. That's good to know but I'm sure glad his sisters haven't changed. Angie and Fran are my dear friends, I mean my dear crazy Greek girlfriends.

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Contact Bossy Priscilla at 970-260-5226 or at Priscilla.Mangnall@q.com.