Then and now: From selling clothes to food

Until the early 1960s, this building on Highway 50 near Ski Run Boulevard housed Lawrence’s Department Store. Upon opening their much larger store (now Sports LTD) in the new Crescent V Center at Stateline, Lawrence’s rebranded this building as Lawrence’s Economy Store, as shown in this 1966 photo (courtesy of Bob Rockwell).

Ultimately it closed and was remodeled in the 1970s into Epominanda’s, part of the Eppie’s restaurant chain of Sacramento.

That later transformed into Carlos Murphy’s, approximately 1980, and today it is Chevy’s, as I’ve photographed here.

— Bill Kingman