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The following photo taken in the late 1940s shows the left part of 816 Main in the center of the photo with the sign "Billiards": In the early 1950s, Toney W. La Salle's Furniture Store located to 820 Main, just north of today's 816 Main, and also inhabited the former Louisville Billiards building at 816 Main. La Salle also had the Maytag appliance business in town. (After 816 Main became the location of Colacci's in 1955, the La Salle Furniture Store stayed at 820 Main and expanded his business northward into the Pellillo's Shoe Shop building. These buildings were later incorporated into the Marketplace Building.) The following photo shows a Maytag sign outside of 816 Main in the early 1950s: Establishment of Colacci's restaurant and its Operation by the Colacci Family, 1955-1993 In 1955, Williams "Buck" La Salle's wife, Mary, and their daughters, Catherine and Hannah (who had inherited the property upon the death of Buck La Salle in 1938), sold 816 Main to Anthony 5