Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 29, 1948
BROWN'S SPORT STORE MOVES TO 43 B'WAY
The Tom Brown Sport Shop, opened on March 1, 1946 by Navy veteran Thomas H. Brown, has moved to 43 Broadway from 72 Broadway and is ready today for business. The sporting goods store's new location is directly opposite the Broadway entrance of Dorsey street.
The new store, located in the remodeled Boynton building, has a street-level entrance and plenty of room inside to display footballs, baseballs, skates, hockey sticks and the many other items dear to the sportsmen's heart.
In the back of the new store an Adirondack hunter's lodge has been built to set apart offices and the workroom of Floyd "Doc"' Blake, keymaker. Behind this room there is another large storage room.
Mr. Brown started his sporting goods business in space which he rented in Everett's clothing store. In December. 1946, he moved to 72 Broadway where, in April of the following year he was joined by "Doc" Blake of New Haven, Conn.
"Doc" had been repairing the broken tennis rackets of Yale boys for a number of years and making keys and repairing Zippers too. Lured by the beauty of the mountains he decided to settle in Saranac Lake and became affiliated with the Tom Brown Sport Shop.
Tom Brown opened his store after a 2 1/2 year stretch of Navy duty in the recent war. He entered in September, 1942 and received his honorable discharge on May 31, 1945 after serving as a chief petty officer with the Naval Air Corps.
