Site # 7 - The Blacksmith Shop & Garage

From 7/28/1905- 5/7/1915 This was the Dixon Machine Works. General Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, lumber planing, sawing, machine and wagon work across the street from the livery stables.

7/28/1905 A.P. D'Artenay worked for John Casey and bought his shop when Casey retired in Oct of 1894 on east side of Main Street. He is the prop in this location until 10/1/1909 when "he builds himself a shop just south of Neat Garnett's house north of town on Main Street across the RR tracks". He named his Dixon Iron Works (WH look this up to be sure)

1/1/1909 L.J. Sager was prop until September

10/9/1909 Schroeder & Jahn become the prop until ?

1914 D.E. Weigele came to town and bought the business. Later he buys John Casey's original shop on the east side of Main Street and opened a garage and machine shop

? ad for Bender & Kippley garage (next to West Valley Lumber Yard), which site? here or west of #8? we know McDermott owns the Kippley Garage from mention in his obit

1915 Kippley Garage and Company sold Studebaker cars. Ads in the Dixon Tribune advertised autos for hire at all hours. Three individuals were proprietors; L.M. Kippley, W.A. Gaffney, and L.A. Marvin (west of site #8?)

In 1916 John McDermott owns all the properties west of here to the corner and north to the Jail/City Hall.

1919 - July

The former blacksmith and machine shed on the McDermott property on the north side of A Street is being transformed into a garage by the erection of a large addition on the east side, which will afford a total storage capacity of twenty-five autos.

Part of the addition is for a wood-working business. C. Joy has the garage rented.

01/01/1921

CITY GARAGE - Clarence Joy, Prop.

May 1921, Tractor Sales and Services, then State Highway, was featured on the Sanborn map

09/01/1930---THE CITY GARAGE -- N.W. DuYORE

01/01/1932

N.W. DuYore, proprietor of the City Garage, in the McDermott building on A street, is going onto the highway on the west

side. He is having a building 60x70 erected this side of the L.D. Buck place where he purchased a small tract.

03/01/1932

NEW PLANT ON THE WEST SIDE. N.W. Duyore expects to have his new garage in shipshape for business by the middle

of next week. Earl Smith has been building, and Ben King has been stuccoing the front part of the doing the wiring that will

flood the place with plenty of light and keep the big, colored electric iight sign going as a beacon to the wayfarer in need.

The plan', Jo 75x65 '01-11 an attractive -ftc.,rt cF which a commodious office and small aprp room is part. The garage is

concreted throughout.

06/01/1945

BERGLUND CO. GOING TO BUILD. According to Gordon Webster, local manager of the Berglund Implement Co., the Company has bought, and acquired title to , the five acres north of the Atkinson home on north Main St., Claude Kernick seller, and expects to erect thereon a 120X80 building to house their stock and repairing equipment. Berglund has been housed in the McDermott building on A street,

This is a photo showing the last 3 historical sites...

The Laundromat in the corner building, the Axelson kids in front of the bowling alley (little black building) and the car in front of the original blacksmith site (in this photo it was McGimsey's Oldsmobile Agency) in 1962.

Dixon Archive photo donated by Harold Axelson

W#7 City Garage/Machine Shop – 160 West A Street (word count - 376)

January 1914, Mr. Freise invested the majority in the garage and Mr. Rossi managed the garage. The two men conducted business for their new garage as the framework of a sixty-foot addition was added to the McDermott Garage occupied by Mr. Bender and Mr. Kipley.

November 1915, Dairy City Garage sells Firestone non-skid tires. The slogan read, “Most miles for your dollar” in the Dixon Tribune newspaper advertisement boldly stated.

May 12, 1916, printed 0in the Dixon Tribune was a Certificate of Partnership with a Fictious Business Name advertisement, Kippley Garage Company will have business partners between L.M. Kippley and W.A Gaffney. Both Kippley and Gaffney reside in Dixon.

August 1916, Dixon Tribune article was a Notice to auto owners: Kippley Garage has been dissolved. Mr. Kippley has retired from the business. The future Garage is Marvin & Gaffney Garage Company. Advertisement for auto repair and machine work of all kinds by the most expert machinists in town.

April 1917, Rossi Brothers Garage and Machine Shop

July 1917, the following advertisement placed in the Dixon Tribune read, “Believe in Dixon. Buy from these merchants and help build up this community.”

Competing garages were Ford who advertised the universal car and was owned by Mr. McMillan and Mr. Hamilton. E.R.Teaford, was yet another competitor who advertised in the Dixon Tribune for Chevrolet auto. Milton Carpenter Blacksmith, Machine Shop and Garage provided service to Dixon residences for their automotive needs. Lastly, Marvin & Gaffney Garage continued to advertise their first-class garage which sold tires and automobile accessories in addition to their garage services.

May 1919, at the corner of Jackson and A Street was the Tourist Garage and Machine Shop owned by Mr. Dean and Mr. Joy.

October 1920 -Tourist Garage becomes City Garage managed by Mr. Joy and Mr. Keeler. This business was located on A Street.

Dan Murphy owned the City Garage and sold Hudson-Essex cars in 1923.

Prior to 1925, Norman W Duyore owned the City Garage. In 1925, however, the City Garage changed hands in from Norman W Duyore to Mrs. Duyore solely.

In 1964 some of the local garage competition came from Movay Chevrolet and Karl Muller machine and welding shop.

Son of Rosco “Ross” Lester Berglund is William “Bill” Ross Berglund. Bill received his BA from Stanford University in 1953, and an MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955.
Immediately upon graduation from Wharton, Bill went to work in the family business. Upon the death of his father in 1956, Bill became president and led the company until it was sold in 1988.

Berglund Tractor & Equipment, a company that was started in Napa in 1922 Roscoe “Ross” Lester Berglundrite your text here...

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