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Dalton’s Men’s and Women’s Clothing

Checking through an estate sale, I saw this and at first I thought it was just a matchbook, then I looked a little closer and this is what it actually is:

Dalton’s Men’s and Women’s Clothing opened in 1956 as Dalton’s Men and Boys Clothing. The original building had a small parking lot to the rear. I would occasionally park there after hours when I was pulling a late shift at WKPT radio. A later renovation subsumed that area.
The store was owned by Maurice and Dot Dalton. They added the women’s section in the 70s. I cannot recall when the store closed.

First Baptist Church

Glenn Souders was working as a photographer for the Kingsport Times-News in the early 60s.  I suppose the “Souders Photo Service” was a side business for him.

I mention this for two reasons: a) this is the only card I’ve ever seen that lists him as the publisher (it was printed by Dexter Press in New York) and b) I was hired by Glenn at WKPT Radio in 1967.  He, much later, became a priest.  He showed up at the station sometime in the 90s and the boss brought him by my office.  The expression on my face when I saw him in a collar caused them both to laugh.