Joe Andre owned this fountain and grocery located next door to the Exchange Club, which he also owned. This fountain was a major bus stop for the Las Vegas, Tonopah, and Reno stages. The sign reads: "groceries, Andre's Drugs, fountain lunch." A bus and car are parked in front.
Dorothy Engel Andre was born June 25, 1898 in New York City, New York to Samuel and Merel Engel. She studied at an all-girls school in Virginia before moving to Astoria, Oregon with her sister. In 1920, she met Joseph (Joe) Otto Andre at a hospital and soon after the couple got married and had one daughter named Ruth.