This building was owned by Aloysius Hergenrother and his wife, Dorothy, from 1927 to 1944, and may have been the location of their shoes and boots store (further research is in process). This building is remembered as the location of the Acme Market in the 1930s to1950s where Cecil Hill worked in the meat department in 1958 for about a year, bagging and throwing out old produce.

When Acme Market moved to Revolution Street, Ralph Lawrence (1912-1993) bought the property for a Western Auto store in the early 1960s. He had previously owned the L&P Grocery Store on North Union Avenue with his brother-in-law John Poplar. Earl McMullen recalls that when he and his wife married in 1964, Ralph Lawrence sold them four tires here for their 1954 Pontiac and kindly allowed them to pay $3 every Friday until the $48 was paid off.

Western Auto operated here for perhaps a decade beside what had become Washington Street Books in the building next door. Art Helton says that when he bought this in 1991 it had an old Acme enameled sign on the building that had been painted over. He rehabbed the building and gave it a new façade. In 2000, John and Kathy Klisavage expanded their Washington Street Books business into this building, which they bought. Now, with 6,000 sq ft of space, they have a huge inventory of books and deal in music, CDs, DVDs, jewelry, comics, Star Wars action figures, and movie costumes. John estimates that he has amassed more than 350 original costumes from about 150 films to date for his Entertainment Museum. He displays many of them in special glass cases throughout the store.

County Records
Built 1945. 7854 sq ft, commercial retail, 12,000 sq ft lot. Formerly separate properties, both #129 and #131 are now recorded together by Harford County.