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"Installations — Repairing — Cleaning — Tool Grinding — Saw Filing" and "Lawnmower <br />Sharpening and Welding." <br />A 1952 program of the St. Louis Annual Bazaar advertised "Sheet Metal Work by Joe's <br />Metal Shop." Local residents recall that other work done at the metal shop included the <br />construction of swing sets. The shop was still called "Joe's" into at least the 1960s. It is <br />believed that Dom Tomeo operated the shop into the 1970s. <br />Dominic Tomeo, who had been born in 1907, died in 1983. The City of Louisville <br />purchased the buildings at 1001, 1005, and 1013 Main for a historical museum. It is <br />believed that it was due to the metal shop not having usefulness as a museum building <br />that the City of Louisville decided to move the structure to its facilities on Empire Rd. <br />This move took place in 1983, and the building has been used by the City since that <br />time. At this time, the foundation of Joe's Metal shop separates the Jacoe Store and the <br />Tomeo House on the Historical Museum's campus, which today has the single address <br />of 1001 Main Street. <br />Sources <br />The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, <br />census records, oral history interviews, and related resources, and Louisville directories, newspaper <br />articles, maps, files, obituary records, survey records, and historical photographs from the collection of <br />the Louisville Historical Museum. <br />