Gone are the gas pumps, the feed store and the boys in knickers too. The intersection between Archibald Street and North Winooski Avenue is a very changed place from the neighborhood hub it was in 1932.

On the corner where the crowd stood in the McAllister photo now sits a single-story cinderblock building. Star Feed Store operated here until 1954.[1] After several years of vacancy, Vermont Tire Co. moved in and did business at 296 North Winooski Avenue until 1960.[2] In 1961, Sterling Upholstery opened up shop in the former tire store and continued to upholster until 1966[3] when Fassett’s bakery, #294, expanded by erecting the building seen here, which served as a garage for their bread delivery trucks[4]. In 1980, however, Fassetts Bakery relocated to a new 50,000 square-foot baking facility they built on Shelburne Road in South Burlington leaving 294 North Winooski Avenue vacant.[5] The building housed a distributor for several years before being divided into many commercial units in the late 1980s, which is most likely when the overhead door facing the street was blocked in.[6] Now the building includes tenants such as the Center for Media and Democracy, and several non-profit organizations.

Just barely visible across Archibald Street is the Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. The building has changed little from 1932 except for when the Ahavath Garem sect took over the structure in 1962.

On the corner next to the synagogue now sits the garage of Champlain Transmission behind a moat of cars in various stages of disrepair. The building that housed several residential tenants and Rutz’s Grocery remained a grocery store and apartments until 1948.[7] At that time the late 1800s building was demolished and the current cinderblock garage erected, as in 1949 Bach’s Service Station was in business at 310 North Winooski Avenue.[8] Yandow Tire took over the location in 1952, and shortly thereafter it would become the home of Benway’s Taxi Co. for many years.[9] Champlain Transmission is the most recent occupier of this site that has been involved in the automotive business one way or another for over 50 years.