Local Businesses: circa 1974

Lasslo Jewerly - Main Street
Opened in 1924, closed in 2000. Originally called the Acme Shoe Shop.

Food Fair - East Main
Opened in 1967.  Was first home to Baker Buick Company and later Hazard Supply Company. Still open today. 

Hammond's Super Shell - East Main
Closed in the early 1990s, building razed and replaced by a new Shell Station. 

Bell's Market - Lovern Street
Closed in 1998. First opened in another location in 1945 by Francis Bell.

Hazard Cleaning & Laundry - East Main
Now closed.

George's Shoe Store - Main Street
Opened circa 1953. Closed late 1970s.  Owned and operated by George Kawaja.

Comb's Dairy Bar - Lovern Steet
A dairy bar occupied this spot since the 1950s until sometime in the 1980s.  Today it is a Tattoo parlor

Papania's Jewerly - Main Street
Opened in 1920s.  Still in operation.

Hazard Coca-Cola Company - East Main
Building (near Woodland Motel) was originally the Hazard Motor Company. Razed in the late '70s

Home Office Supply - Main Street
Was originally Ideal Furniture Company that opened in 1918.  Now closed. Storefront now occupied by a woodworking shop.
Another View

With the loss if Lasslo's Jewerly in 2000, WKIC and Papania's are now the oldest continious businesses on Main Street. Engle Funeral Home is Hazard's oldest business (since 1907). They are not, however, on Main Street (East Main).