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Volume 10, Issue 9 - Feature #3398

L. A. Wagner Cash Grocery - Alva, OK

I had been a soda jerk at a local drug store and the lady was a friend of Veva's, anyway when the lady fired me, Veva tried to get me to go to work for her, however I went to larger grocery store called Blakemore's, they were out of Liberal, Kansas. Paul Wie bner frinally came to work for Safeway as butcher.

Francis R. melkus - 2020-05-10 17:33:19

My father Paul Wiebener retuned home from WWII in 1946, he and my mother (Veva) bought the store from mother's dad L.A. Wagner and operated it until 1955. It was about that time some of the larger grocery chains entered the Alva market, making it difficult for mom and pop stores to compete. My dad had an acquaintance operating a grocery store in Aspen, CO and he invited our family to move there and manage the store. We did, but were back in Alva in little over a year. We were flat-landers not mountain people, and although we had a great time and I have lots of memories Alva was our home.

Marvin Wiebener - 2008-03-03 03:03:34

I believe that the last owners of the grocery store was Paul and Veva Wiebner. We shopped there 1948 thru early 1950s.

Marthesia (Marty) Myers - 2008-03-02 15:47:06

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