6  Biersack's Main Street Beverages
2884 Main Street

This structure was built as a drug store and run by P.O. Griste. If you look at the doorway, you can still see the black and white tile that was typical of many drug stores of that era. Mr. Griste sold toys upstairs at Christmas time and kept the store open until midnight. From an Article in the East Troy News, December 15, 1915, -"Yes sir, those mechanical toys at Griste's drugstore and the ideal of perfection. They are practical and, unlike many others, have lasting qualities. See the little electric engine pulling coaches from any electric light socket in your home. Then too, the Mecanno toys teach practical lessons to boys about construction work, and on that account are way ahead of others. Drop in and see them." The building was later taken over successively by Charles Zinn, CJ Blanchard, Fred and Bill Zimmer, and John Rademacher and Ken Pluess. The name of the store under John Rademacher was The Gift Tree. While co-owned by Rademacher and Pluess, Ken Pluess converted it into a liquor store. For three years John Schulke owned the building, followed by Len Hotz for another three years. In 1983, Achilles and Karen Arestides became the owners of The Wine Seller, and the business was sold to Mr. John Biersack on April 8th, 1998.