Cassidy's Barber and Beauty Shop-113 East Main Street

Barbershops; Beauty shops; Business enterprises

The 1886 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show this building as a furniture store but we can't be sure who owned it at that time. We do know that by the early 1900s Edward J. Meyers had his business here. Mr. Meyers sold furniture, pianos and musical instruments. He owned the business for over thirty years. After Mr. Meyers' death in 1931, Bernard Cassidy moved into the building and opened Cassidy's Barber and Beauty Shop. Mr. Cassidy ran a barber shop from this location until he retired in 1968. It remained under the name of Cassidy's Barber Shop until the mid-1990s. After that time, it became "The Main Connection" which was a beauty shop. Now it is a specialty shop called "The Cheshire Cat".

Harry Lemen, photographer

Madison Courier; Historical Files; City Directories; Sanborn Maps

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Madison-Jefferson County Public Library

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Photograph taken with Eastman-Kodak Brownie Camera No. 2C model A, using No. 130 film. Resulting negative (2.875in x 4.875in) scanned at 1200 DPI using a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online jpeg image file saved at 72 DPI 800 to 1000 pixels on long edge.

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