Max Videto, Sr.

Max Videto, Sr.. . , Max Videto, Sr., the proprietor of the store on Teft Road in the early 1900s turned the old blacksmith shop south of the store into a slaughterhouse so that he could sell both groceries and meat. In 1919 Clarence Cook changed the slaughterhouse into a garage, the first automobile sales agency in Spring Arbor. From him, William Aylesworth of Snyder Station bought a Model T Ford for $420. When the Harold Shearer Family owned the corner store and restaurant, they changed the garage building back to a blacksmith shop. Here Jim Snyder developed his skill of turning scrap metal into works of art. In 1948 William Houghtby opened a lumberyard and tore down the blacksmith shop. Then, in 1960 Leroy Holton, who had worked for "Bill” during his school days, bought the lumberyard. To the north was a horse barn and a small shed that became an ice house during Oney Sidwell's ownership (1920-1943). When the store was torn down in 1971, the tunnels used in the underground railroad days to these outbuildings became visible.