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