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LOCAL HISTORY
visit Mrs. Malouf at their original
store, where Mr. Malouf would
pull on a chain light above each
clothing display as the ladies
viewed merchandise, following
them to promptly turn off the
lights as they walked away to
save money. Mr. Mitchell Malouf,
originally from Lebanon, built
his successful clothing business
that thrives today in Lubbock
with prudent strategies in Post
during the 40s and 50s, no doubt
C.W. Post Marjorie Merriweather Post developed from surviving the
town raised $35,000 in 1916, to within several blocks. Johnny Depression. For example, Johnny
bid unsuccessfully to become explains, “Parents worked hard all recalls that Mr. Malouf walked
the future site of the college later week and then loaded their cars everywhere to save gas, read the
known as Texas Tech University. on Saturday with all the children stock market report in the post
It seemed as if C.W.’s lofty dreams they could squeeze and parked in office newspaper daily to save
had died with him, but citizens town to visit with people in the five cents, and bought his peanuts
like Johnny reminisce about the wide streets.” Even in the 1970s from the penny machine at the tire
utopian society that continued to and 80s, my husband Tray Payne store because it dispensed more
thrive. recalls “making the summer day peanuts than any other machine
rounds downtown as a child, in town. His clothing store began
Johnny fondly recalls memories starting at Collier Drug (his dad’s as a resale shop, with Mr. Malouf
of his childhood in Post, except pharmacy), grabbing a burger at refurbishing gently worn shoes
when Dr. D.C. Williams made Corner Grocery, talking Johnny’s and clothes for his customers. Mrs.
necessary and routine house ear off at the post office, listening Malouf was a character as well,
calls to his family. “If you saw to a Charles reportedly exasperated when a
him walking up to your front McCook story
door with his little black bag, at the dentist’s
you just knew you’d get a shot office, poking
before he left!” But he and Nancy my head in
proudly remember their small Wackers, Twins
town booming, with eight car Fashion, or
dealerships in Post at one time, Hudman’s
supported by townspeople and Furniture, and
nearby ranchers who traded ending with a
locally because “cars weren’t as free sucker from
reliable as they are now,” and you the bank before
needed nearby dealers to repair riding my bike
problems as they arose. They also back home.”
enjoyed eight “mom-and-pop"
grocery stores, two drug stores In the 1950s,
with soda fountains, shopping, Nancy and her
pool halls, and a movie theater mother loved to Tray Payne on bicycle with father Don and brother Tyge
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