Arts and Letters Bookstore

Address: 
113 East Bridge Street, Granbury Texas, 76048

Now Arts and Letters Book Store, it was originally built in 1883 as a saloon for Andy Aston and George W. Landers. On this building there are cast-iron pilasters and the patented iron threshold bearing the Aston-Landers name. The saloon was highly successful and when prohibition was finally enforced by the local government, a newspaper reported Aston and Landers sold every drop of liquor in their saloon, taking in over $100, on the last night before probation began. Aston and Landers closed the saloon and Aston started a harness and buggy business while his partner Mr. Landers opened a pharmacy. One old timer said the Granbury residents suspected the same liquid which had previously been served across the bar in the saloon was being bottled and sold as prescriptions in the pharmacy.