Mitch's Del-Taco, Oliver Studio, Lillian Beauty Shoppe (474 Oliver)

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Mitch's Del-Taco, Oliver Studio, Lillian Beauty Shoppe (474 Oliver)

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An Oliver Street favorite since 1978, "Mitch" went on to sling tacos at Mitch's General Store (9005 E Otto Springville Rd, East Otto, NY 14729) before retiring in early 2024.
  • 1924 - "Oliver Studio", photography, P. Norwich, proprietor
  • 1931 - Anna Norwich, proprietor
  • 1931 - Lillian Beauty Shoppe
  • 1951 - Someone at that address is selling a "fruit and vegetable business."
  • 1948-1968 - Barber shop operated by Polish-born Steven Haba, who lived in NT since 1911, retired in July 1968, and was dead a week or two later.
  • 1979 - On July 5, a seemingly avoidable death occurrs here. Pamela Robbins dies from a diabetic coma, after being advised by one Reverend Jerome Stefanski to stop taking her insulin, claiming it was making her ill (he'd also claimed to have cured her epilepsy). At the inquest into her death the following March, Stefanski argues the nature of death with Niagara County Coroner William Brunner.

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