Looking Back: Recalling the "Pink Apartments" in Chinook
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Elmer McDowell, Jr, of Birch Tree, Missouri, recently sent an email to Sweet Nursing Home asking for information about Chinook, particular the Tom Field Apartments (pink apartments) where he was born in 1940. His family lived there one more year after he was born, then moved to St. Louis. McDowell served 22 years in the army and 16 years as a police officer in Conway, South Carolina before retiring to the area around the Ozarks.
Reporter's note: Locals of a certain age will likely recall the "Pink Apartments" in downtown Chinook on the corner across the street from the Motor Inn and adjacent to Dan's NAPA. The apartments were torn down, along with Dr. Hoon's office and residence, in September, 1987 and the three town lots became the present Centennial Park. The park commemorates the centennial of the town of Chinook as well as Montana, both founded in 1889.
Mid-January of this year the Sweet Nursing Home received an email from Elmer E. McDowell, Jr. McDowell, no relation to the former Undersheriff, lives in Birch Tree...
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