209 W. Pine Street
A Small, Good Thing
Homer Kepler bought the land in 1935, after the Sunbury-Selinsgrove trolley shut down. In this Sanborn Fire Insurance map from 1921, the trolley station is the approximate site of the present-day building.
The trolley station, brand new in February 1909
Kepler sold a decade later, dividing the property into five lots.
LaRue and Pearl Axt bought the lot in 1947 and opened a photo business the next year. The couple came from Rockford. IL, and had married three years earlier.
For thirty years, the Camera Shop was a Selinsgrove institution. All innovations in the trade, from "non-fading color enlargements" to photographic Christmas cards, made their Selinsgrove debut here.
After the Axts died (one week apart, in January 1979), the business continued briefly as the Picture Barn.
For the next thirteen years, 1982-1995, the building was the Snyder/Union Office of Human Resources.
And here’s the past three decades:
1996-1998 Sugar Shack (a “California-style coffee shop”)
1998-2000 Dorothy’s Bread and More
2000 K&S Bagels
2001-2008 Campus Candlelight Cafe (a “bagel shop-deli hybrid”)
2008-2013 Dawn’s Luncheonette
2015-2018 Dynamic Wings and Subs
2020-2021 Homer’s Kitchen