Franklin Food Shop Ad

Blocks of ice were no longer cut from local lakes and stored in ice houses around the village. Villagers now had access to freezers.

The Franklin Food Shop, operated by the Fraser family in the 1940’s, had food lockers in their store, the old Brick store, for villagers to rent.

Lockers were available to store your meat. This must have been a revolutionary idea that made the life of villagers much easier

Brick Store

In 1941, Wanda and Les Fraser took over the grocery store from the Woods. Bert Wood and his daughter Mildred managed the hardware/toy store in the north addition of the Brick store. Fraser’s shop included a fresh meat and frozen department. Villagers rented metal lockers where they could store their bulk meat. Check out the meat lockers at the Franklin Historical Museum 26165 Thirteen Mile at Kirk Lane. Museum hours are Saturday 1 – 3 P.M.

The businesses were all in the family. The Currins, Woods and Frasers were all related to one another.

Wanda and Les Fraser lived with their family above the grocery store.