The old Piggly Wiggly on Weber Street

...Or is it? I came across this old photo captioned "Piggly Wiggly*, 717 N. Weber Street, ca 1929-35", and naturally I had the strong urge to locate the building and take a snapshot of it. Once I compared the two images, though, I saw that there are some discrepancies between the 1920s building and the current building. For one, half the building is missing today. More importantly, the facade is different. The old photo shows a stucco facade with a gentle arch, and the modern facade is brick with a second, smaller arch topping the large arch. Also, there is a chimney in the modern building that is missing in the older photo.  Hmmmm. Perhaps the building had a facelift or two at some point in its evolution. That's entirely possible. My best guess is that it started off as a brick building, then received a stucco facade with the modified arch (and looking at the black and white picture, the front looks very much like a false facade), then was restored back to the brick at some point, revealing the original small arch. I don't know where the chimney comes into the picture, though. You'd think there would have been a chimney all along. Perhaps the stucco facade was tall enough to obscure the chimney from the street. (?) Also, how did they cut off the right half of the building like that? You can see there's now a newer, generic brick building that butts up to the old one.  Ah, the mystery! I love it! I wish I could find an old timer to answer all of my questions!

On a side note, I lived one and-a-half blocks away and across the street from this building for seven years and never paid it any attention at all. It never even occurred to me that it must have been a storefront at some point. Oblivious!

*For those of you unfamiliar with Piggly Wiggly: it's a chain of grocery stores -- they are more prevalent in the midwest and the south; I've never seen one in Colorado.

June 6, 2017 edit: The Piggly Wiggly picture was mislabeled! The actual address of the building was 402-404 S. Nevada Avenue, just south of the Pioneers Museum, I believe. Unfortunately the building no longer exists, but you can see another photo of it pre-Piggly Wiggly HERE. As you can see, it matches the second photo in this post, so the mystery has been solved! The building on Weber Street was never the Piggly Wiggly, although in the 1950s it was apparently a D&P Superette Grocery. Now I can sleep at night ;^) I will see if I can get a picture of the spot where the Piggly Wiggly once stood. I believe there was a gas station there for many decades but it's recently been torn down and replaced yet again -- if I'm thinking of the right corner, anyway. More to come!