Maxwell, Bill

As told to M.S. at the Pilgrim Inn January 6, 1980 I was the one that put in the first Overwaitea store. Started March 3, 1933. It cost $2500 to start for stock by end of June in showed $300.00 profit. I had been several years at Summerland, did very well there, and several people said it was crazy to go to Princeton. That town will never support an Overwaitea store But i came over anyway. We were in the building on Vermilion Street. I remember there was the Show (Al Towriss – he must have been separated from his wife and the kids perhaps) then there was the Post Office, Joe Rotherham was the postmaster, then Joe Brown in the Customs House. (Why was there a Customs House in Princeton? He collected the excise tax from the Brewery) Then next was the Rex Cafe. I was born in Merritt, worked in the coal mine at Middlesboro, I knew Jim Fairley well there. 1980