Monday, August 25, 2014

Let’s Go to the Sweet Shop!

Generations of Versailles youth have said that phrase over and over again! Now at your Versailles Area Museum, you can visit our reconstructed tribute to this Versailles icon. With Larry Brown and sister, Arlene Keiser, many of their father and mother’s treasures from all those years at the Sweet Shop are being displayed or recreated for the community to share and enjoy. This new “All Class Reunion” displays is a tribute to Harry & Dola Brown and 75 years at the Sweet Shop! You will almost taste the sweet rolls and ice cream treats (and no gum under the tables, please). The museum wants to thank to Bob Condon for the loan of the juke box. We’ve even got the ole juke box playing those hip tunes from those crazy fifties!

You’ll see the “gang hanging out after another Versailles Tiger victory. Including a rare 1950’s Versailles Band uniform and some awesome tiger gear.

Moving down the hall will be a peak into a 1950’s girls bedroom filled with her “treasurers” and across the hall is our tribute to the old school. From the one room school, to the 1927 building, to the 1952 building we are full of all those collective memories of our community’s youth! Be sure to notice the unique floors from each building. We thank the Versailles Alumni Association for donating funds to keep these memories alive.

The museum will be open August 29, from noon to 4:00; August 30, from noon till six and August 31, from 11:00 till 4:00 (remember Soup on the Lawn!) Come and relive our history this Alumni weekend.

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