In Virgil’s youth, the building on the left was Langs Grocery and the building on the right was the Gamble Hardware store. Photo courtesy of Virgil Kent Olson
In 1952, Pawnee City had two operating train depots and, during the county fair, a wellused wooden grandstand on the fairgrounds that seemed to me as an 8-year-old to stretch the length of a football field.
My family moved to Pawnee City that year when my parents, Virgil and Audrey Olson, purchased the Gambles hardware business located next to what was then Lang’s Grocery on the northeast corner of…
