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Negative, Sheet FilmEntry/Object ID
2017.030.1308Description
This is a photo of a man in a liquor store behind the counter. The man in the photograph is Jack Waterson. He was from Oklahoma or somewhere in the midwest. He bought the Black & White Liquors on the corner of First and I Sts. from Thomas Wright in 1942. Thomas Wright owned two stores called the Black and White. One was next to the old State Theater and the other at First and I Sts. Jack Waterson consolidated the stores at a single location, First and Sts. Jack Waterson died in July 1959 at the age of only 47 and his son-in-law, Jerry Wells, took over the business. Shortly after that the Nickolatas brothers bought the business. (They also owned a liquor store in Vallejo.)
The jacket that Mr. Waterson is wearing was blue in color. When the Nickolatas brothers took over they discontinued the wearing of the jackets.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection