Keystone Club New Castle Colorado

Circa 1887: The Keystone Club Saloon occupied the corner of New Castle Colorado's 4th & Main Street. The Keystone did not last long and Max Schayer, who opened New Castle's first drug store in 1886, acquired the building and moved his drug store into it after the Keystone closed. Max was a popular and highly respected business leader in New Castle, Colorado's early years and was heavily involved in the early operations of New Castle government. He operated the business until 1904 when sadly he took his own life with a mixture of drugs due to financial problems, he was only 49 years old. The drug store would later be acquired and operated by William "Doc" Marshall. Doc Marshall would also become a popular and active business leader in New Castle's early years and served as the Town's Mayor in 1920. Ironically Doc Marshall would also take his own life by a self inflicted gun shot. Doris Flynn would later acquire the drug store and operate it in this location until the late 1960's when she moved the business to the corner of 3rd & Main Street. The original drug store building was razed in the early 1980's. Michael Watts constructed a beautiful new brick building on the site in 2005.

  1938 New Castle Colorado Drugstore

  Max Schayer owner of New Castle Colorado Drugstore

1909 William "Doc" Marshall

Circa 1973 - these buildings were taken down about 1980

The Michael Watts building which occupies the site of the old drug store today

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