Image courtesy of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection at SMU
Our neighborhood might never get a Whole Foods, but it already had a “Pure Foods.”
Hicks’ Pure Foods was a grocery store in business from 1911-1918 at 900 W. Seventh, which would be around Tyler and Seventh (I can’t seem to match it to any existing building, but maybe one of our readers has a keener eye).
The only time the store was mentioned in the newspaper was after a fence fire in June 1912. The spirited language in the story is proof that reporters have always loved a good fire on a slow news day.
