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The Kane Republican, Pennsylvania, Thursday, 27 September 1936
Melvin Bassett Opens Groceteria On Chase Street
Announcement was made today of the formal opening of the Bassett Groceterias in the Bassett building on Chase street. The new store is operated by Melvin R. Bassett, who recently returned to Kane from New Castle, where he was representative of a nationally-known line of food products.
The storeroom occupied by the new self-served store formerly housed a business conducted by his father, the late L. D. Bassett. The place has been remodeled and redecorated throughout and a new brick front has been constructed.
Interior of the store with its various fixtures is arranged in the groceteria self-serving style, the first type of such store to be established in this vicinity.
The opening of the store will take place this evening at 7:30 o?clock at which time an invitation has been extended the public so inspect the place.
The Kane Republican, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 19 May 1956
Sale of Bassett Building
Things are humming down at the corner of Chase and Bayard streets where negotiations for sale of the Bassett building to Carl Nicolazzo, of Kane, R.D., were completed this week. The sale negotiations as reported a week ago, for the first time take the building from hands of the Bassett family. The building which has seen Kane?s first theatre and a variety of business ventures, was constructed before turn of the century by the late L.D. Bassett, and modernized by the recent owner Melvin R. Bassett, in 1936.
The large building is situated on a lot 150 by 159 feet fronting on Chase and extending along Bayard to an alleyway across from the borough building.
Today, George Hetrick and Evert Bloom are moving their wholesale washer parts business next door into the former location of the Coulter Studio ? a huge job. Their location, it was reported, is expected to house a TV repair business. At the corner, Jerry Petruzzi is decorating and planning near future opening of an exchange business-used furniture and other articles. No plans have been reported by the new owner for other rooms in the building, including the large apartment over one part of the building.
When L.D.B asset constructed the building, he operated a grocery store there. Later he changed the business to kitchenware and pottery and his wife Jennie had an art goods department.
The Nickelodeum, Kane?s first theatre, opened in the building with entrance from Bayard street under management of a many be the name of McManus. In those days of the flickers, ?Maggie? Murphy sand for the illustrated songs. The late Mike Chairamonte conducted a grocery business in the building on Bayard street for many years, then moved up on Chase street.
The recent owner Melvin Basset and his wife Betty operated a grocery in the brick-front part of the building for a few years prior to Mr. Bassett?s employment by the government at Reading and Harrisburg. They returned here a year ago and tentatively plan to move to Harrisburg in the future.
The Kane Republican, Pennsylvania, Thursday, 9 June 1955
Ex-Residents Return
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin R. Bassett, well-known former Kane residents who have been living at Harrisburg for the past several years, have returned to Kane and resumed residence in the Bassett building on Chase street.
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