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The 1916 Louisville directory lists the United Mine Workers Store at this location with John Sidle as manager. Although little is known of this establishment, its existence appears to have been confirmed by Henry "Rico" Zarini (1889-1982), who in a 1975 oral history interview stated that the miners' union operated a "commissary" at this location, selling food at cost to miners and their families. Based on information in the 1921 Louisville directory, it appears that the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph was located in the building on the right of this parcel, and also at that address was Tony D'Orio's shoemaker / shoe repair business. Tony D'Orio's business appears in many directories from the 1910s to the early 1930s as being located in this approximate location, but he appears to have rented and not owned the property, and Louisville addresses had not yet been standardized, making this difficult to verify. There is no business listing for him between 1926 and 1930, which suggests that he was displaced by the 1926 fire. However, his business reappeared in this vicinity by 1930. 1926 Fire and History of the Buildings to 1955 In 1926, a fire damaged or destroyed the buildings on the south part of the east side of the 800 block of Main Street. This fire is believed to have affected the building on the south part of this particular parcel and led to the buildings being remodeled in about 1928. From the 1930s until the early 1950s, there were two distinct businesses at this site, with the buildings touching one another and the building on the left being slightly larger. For many or most of these years, the business on the left was a billiard hall and the business on the right was a barber shop. In the 1930s, the billiard hall was operated by William "Buck" La Salle. He also purchased the property from Jane Williams. (The deed was recorded in 1937, but the sale may have been dated earlier.) La Salle had been one of the leading baseball players in Boulder County, but was injured in the Centennial Mine while working as a miner. According to his obituary, his pool hall was known as "Buck's Place." Buck La Salle died in 1938 at the age of 45. According to La Salle's two daughters, their father's pool hall and the barber shop next to it were never torn down but were simply remodeled by Anthony Colacci in 1955. Following the 1938 death of Buck La Salle, Buck's wife, Mary La Salle, rented the billiard hall to Buck's brother, Tony "Boney" La Salle. Harry Mayor, who was born in 1918, has written that each the three pool halls that figured in his youth had a distinct character, with Boney's having the younger, boisterous crowd that was involved with baseball teams and the volunteer hose teams. Boney was lenient and allowed Harry and his friends to play a few shots of pool in exchange for racking up a few games of pool, although their mothers had forbidden it. 3