Laramie’s Living History — Businesses
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
The type of businesses in Albany County have changed over time but some have roots to 1868.
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Why didn’t Laramie jump on the Bandwagon to have streetcars?
Remember the Broadway hit “The Musicman”? It featured flim-flam artist “Professor” Harold Hill who promised a boys’ band for the citizens of fictitious River City, Indiana. He planned to follow his usual practice of leaving town once the money was paid to him for uniforms and instruments, but he never intended to place the orders.
Laramie was probably the victim of a similar promoter, Francis M. McHale (1858 -?) who came on the local scene in 1891 from Denver, Colorado.