Site #12 -

Kirby Drug/IOOF/Kline & market

#12 - Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall/Montezuma Lodge #172 - 100 South First Street (302)

Owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which is still active today. They meet upstairs in this building as they have since 1884. Downstairs is the most recent restaurant to occupy the space, Bud’s Pub and Grill. Before Bud’s, the restaurant was Wally’s restaurant, but the longest occupant was Tom Wong, who operated the Corner Café’ for over 40 years. The site was the first location of the A. Kirby Drug Store moved from Silveyville on logs in the 1870s and burned in the 1883 fire.

An 1895 photo shows a saloon selling Buffalo Beer for five cents. After Prohibition was enacted and alcoholic drinks were banned, the corner business became a grocery store in 1928 operated by Brewen, Coleman, and Lucas. During the Great Depression in 1931, Joe Young replaced the store with his Corner Café’. The Corner Café’ was operated by Tom Wong there in the beginning of 1945, and then became Frank’s restaurant in 1969 when Frank Fong took over. Fong died in 1995, and the restaurant was sold to present owners Bud and Cherie Fanning a year later, who opened Bud’s Pub and Grill. This business remains today.

1870-1883 I.O.O. F original building was made of wood and destroyed by fire.

1874-1883 I.O.O. F present-day two-story brick Lodge Hall and Kirby’s Drug Store

1884 I.O.O. F lodge, saloon, and furniture store

1914 J. Jacobs, owner

1915-1927 Reignierd’s Grocery, Jim Palmer & Albert L. Reignierd – Proprietor

1928-1931 Brewen, Coleman, & Lucas

1931 owner – Joe Young

1936-1969 Corner Café – previous owners Tom Wong

1969- 1995 Frank’s Corner – Frank Fong & Kim P Mar (1926-2000) of Canton, China, and co-owner of Kim & Ned’s Restaurant

1996 Bud’s Pub & Grill – Bud & Cherie Fanning – owners

IOOF/Kirby's Drug Store/Kline/New Corner

June 22 1870 pg 3 The Sacramento Bee "New Lodge. - Montezuma Lodge No. 172 I.O.R.M., was installed at Dixon, on the line of the California Pacific Railroad, night before last. Grand Master Daniels and Deputy Grand Master William H. Hill, of this city, conducted the exercises." (have this in pdf need jpeg

Find info on Kirby moving store here from Silveyville on logs and selling on the way.

July 15 1873 from newspapers.com...see article

Kline buys Odd Fellows Building from William Ferguson. Good Templars and Odd Fellows will continue upstairs. Kline's hardware store will move to the lower story from upstairs where it was and the Solano Market that was there before him downstairs will be moved to the Pioneer Market (wh the Pioneer Market is Henry Peters butcher store at City Hotel I believe?)

Joseph Kline under Odd Fellows Hall see ad Date DECEMBER 05 1874 page 2

Dec 27-Jan 9 1884 A Kirby to ...IOOF $1800 (see article to right)

John S Mayes to ....IOOF $1 (see article to left)

See article on building of the 2 story after the fire...

Life of Joseph Kline APRIL 04 1891 page 5 Tribune has sketch of him also...

New Corner ice cold Buffalo Beer 5 cents a glass Ruhstaller, sandwiches, corner A and First Month MAY Issue Date MAY 05 1893 page 4

New Corner Saloon Fischer prop Date DECEMBER 23 1904 page 7

(Willot and Chave also have new corner saloon after? This is Denise's family Chave)

FOUR "ADDITIONS" INTERSECT AT I.O.O.F. CORNER. Two or three of the 'old-timers, including John Kilkenny and Bob Stephens, were standing at the Johnson hardware store corner. Said one: "This is an historic corner. We are standing in Dickson's Addition; at the Shell station in the Peters Addition; if you had your dinner at Corner Cafe in the Odd Fellows building you would have dined in the Mayes Additon." "If you were at Dawson's you would be in the Ross Addition." "In the

first days of the town," said John Kilkenny, "I am told that they surveyed the lots with a rope instead of a chain and they got into some difficulties because the rope shrunk during the night and all the Scotch owners wanted to sell first thing every morning."

3/1/1931 ---The Corner Cafe opens for business tomorrow. The new proprietor, who came to Dixon from Davis, has spent over $2,000 fixing up and making over the lower floor of Odd Fellows building, and has installed new kitchen equipment, including gas range and water heaters. American and Chinese service.

3/1/1936

CHARLES KIRBY SELLS BUSINESS. After being in the drug business in Dixon for over 40 years, sharing with Milton Carpenter the distinction of being the longest in continuous business, Chas. Kirby has sold out to G.A. Grussendorf of Lodi, possession to be taken the first of next month. The young man is a registered pharmacist of a few years experience in a drug store at Lodi. With Mrs. Grussendorf, he was in Dixon the latter part of last week looking for a suitable house to lease. The father of Charlie Kirby moved his drug store from old Silveyville to Dixon, new town on the new railroad, occupying part of the lot on which stands the present Odd Fellows building. He gave up the store when he became county sheriff. Returning from Fairfield he sold the lot and in 1885 reopened a drug store in the building now occupied by the LaFontaines. In 1890, his son, Charles, went to work for him as pharmacist, and has been dispensing drugs and sundries ever since, with very few vacation periods, He carried on the drug business after his father's death, later going into partnership with James Roseberry at the present site, the latter selling his interest several years ago and locating at Winters. (wh Dad's business starts here but when Charles sells he is on west side of N Main Street)

(See photos...in 50's-? It was the Corner Cafe and Frank's Corner)