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A look back at the McMurrary Dairy Bar

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The store location originally was a blacksmith shop owned by I.W. Simpson and his sons. Pictured in 1913 were sons Frank Simpson and Guy Bayer Simpson. The third man is unidentified.

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An employee whose last name was Fife waited on a customer near the deli case in this old photo.

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Donald Duckworth and his son Gary stand outside the McMurray Dairy Bar in the 1950s.

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An addition was built behind the original McMurray Dairy Bar in the late 1950s. The addition gave the local store a “superette” feel. The photo shows the addition in 1961 as it paralleled Valley Brook Road.

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Wallace McMurray was the first to mail a parcel from the new McMurray Post Office on March 15, 1957. He was helped by Dairy Bar owners Peg and Donald Duckworth.

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The gasoline pumps installed around 1927 were the only source of gas between Washington and Pittsburgh. At that time, East McMurray Road was known as Washington Pike and was the only major road to connect Washington and Pittsburgh

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Ed Heisler and his son, Ed, are the new owners of the Dairy Bar, located in McMurray. It has been renamed Heisler's Market.

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