1. The Sports Shop was a quality women’s store that was in business in downtown Lebanon for nearly 50 years. It was established in 1954 when Jewell Hough and Ruby Brock opened the store in the basement of the Joe Knight building at the corner of Commercial St. and Jefferson Ave. They later moved the shop across the street to 125 W. Commercial St. (where The Parlor Salon is now located) about 1958. Hough and Brock retired in 1970 and sold the business to Vannie Admire, who later moved the business to the former Fashion by Griffith’s and Casey’s department store building in 1989. The business closed in 2001. Submit old photos to Kirk Pearce, Laclede County Record, 100 E. Commercial St., Lebanon, Mo. 65536 or email kirk@laclederecord.com
Photo from Kirk Pearce collection
2. Past and present employees and friends attending The Sports Shop i retirement party for owners Ruby Brock and Jewell Hough on May 20, 1970, at Shepherd Hills Restaurant. First row, seated, from left, Helen Brandt, Ruby Brock, Helen Loney, Mabel Brown, Jewell Hough; standing, Marguerite Kay, Susan Watson, Cindy Reese, Marilin Loney, Jeanette Whipple, Deanna Hite, Ann Froelich, Eunice Webb, Betty Worthy, Hazel Deputy, Janice Hause, Lina DeGraffenreid, Nadine Vandaveer, Flossie King and Alice Ivey.
Photo from Paula Hough Harris.
3. Longtime owner Vannie Admire with her display of Precious Moments that the store carried for several years.
From Kirk Pearce collection.
4. The Sports Shop bag from Paula Hough Harris.
5. Advertisement from Lebanon Daily Record, April 26, 1956.
6. Advertisement from Lebanon Daily Record, April 27, 1971.
