(Image provided by The Herald Journal) 

Floyd Burgin 

Shortly after Lorenzo O. Skanchy was recorded as the owner in 1934, the market was passed to the hands of another business owner: Floyd Burgin. 

Floyd Burgin moved to 400 East and Center Street in 1934 and called the store Burgin Cash Grocery.  The name would later be shortened to "Burgin Grocery," continuing to operate at 400 East and Center Street until 1938.[42] 

(Image provided by Cache American) 

Earl and Vera D. Nielson 

The Burgins would go to rent a cafe on Logan’s Main Street in 1938 and lease “Burgin Grocery” to Earl Nielson and his wife. Earl Nielson would own the lease for the grocery store but his wife, Vera Daines Nielson, would be the direct operator while the Burgins focused on their cafe on Main Street. This was located near Capitol Theatre (now known as the Ellen Eccles Theatre).[43] 

It is unknown what the Nielsons called the store at 400 East and Center Street, or even if they changed the name. 

(Image provided by Carma Croshaw and the Island Market)

Croshaw Family

Around 1939, the Croshaw family would own the the grocery store. They would own the store from roughly 1939-1948. There is some overlap of who owned the store from 1946-1948, as the details are unclear. A photograph was taken of the Croshaw family standing in front of "Croshaw Market" around 1942. 

In 1943, they produced a calendar on behalf of "Croshaw's Grocery", which appears to be what the market went by. It is unclear if they changed the name of the market after the family photo was taken or if the market went by multiple names.

(Image provided by The Herald Journal)

As of 1946, the grocery store at 400 East and Center Street was owned by H. Cleve and Melva K. Hansen.[44] It is possible that they had just taken ownership the year before, as this photo—most likely taken in front of the building at 400 East and Center Street—was taken in 1945. This is the only photo we have of the building before the tax assessment photographs from the 1950s. 

By 1949, the Hansens would connect their store to the Independent Grocer’s Alliance (IGA).[45] This would be the start of an influential turning point for the grocery store. (See the “Turbulent times and the IGA” page for more). 

After leaving this store location, the Hansen family would go on to open another store, “Cleve’s Foodland,” by 1953.[46] 

This section of a plat map shows “[Island] Market Inc” with the property separated into two triangles by the North Branch of the Logan River; 2006. (Image provided by Cache County, GIS Division)

Sometime in the 1940s, the owner, Cleve Hansen, chose to expand the market over the river during its time as “Hansen’s Grocery.”[47] The Little Logan River, which originally separated the building Lorenzo Skanchy first built from the pastures surrounding it, now flows beneath the building.

This marks the first renovation of the Island Market building on record. The Island Market is also one of the very few buildings built on top of a canal in Cache Valley. 

According to this plat map, the river bed of the Logan River (now an underground canal) is not part of the property owned by the lot owners. Circa 1869, the riverbeds of both branches of the Logan River were required to be deeded to Logan City.[48] As a result, the lot containing the Island Market is now split into two triangles, excluding about ten feet in the middle for the riverbed of the Little Logan River.[49] 

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Robert F. and Fay R. McCann 

Sometime before 1949, the grocery store at 400 East and Center Street would pass to Robert F. and Fay R. McCann, who would rename the store “McCann Market.”[50] But, like the Hansens, the McCanns would go on to move their grocery business elsewhere, to 440 North Main Street, by 1953.[51] The building at 400 East and Center Street was bought by the Salterns by 1950.[52]