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credit to get by in the summers. It was difficult for Ernest and Dorothy Peltzer's grocery business to survive. Also in part due to the advent of World War II, they gave up the business and moved to Portland, Oregon, where Ernest found work in the shipyards as part of the war effort. The following photo shows Ernest Peltzer in an interior shot of the building at 1006 Pine when he had it as a store for groceries and meats in the early 1940s: The Peltzers' "Louisville Grocery and Market" also advertised on the back of a Blue Parrot restaurant menu from circa 1940 given to the Historical Museum by the Peltzer family, as seen here: LOUISVILLE Grocery and Market (By the Depot) FANCY and STAPLE GROCERIES CORN FED MEATS TRADE HERE AND SAVE EVERY DAY Over the next several years, ownership of the building by different members of the Peltzer family shifted, but the ownership stayed with members of the Peltzer family (none of whom still lived in Louisville) and was rented out to others. By 1948, it had become known as the Track Inn. This was the first of two names for the business that referenced the railroad next to it (the other being Pine Street Junction, starting in the early 1990s).