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Oscar's Smoke House In 1940, Oscar Quintal and his wife, Edith, moved to Warrensburg, where he became manager of the meat department at the Grand Union Supermarket. Three years later they opened Oscar's Meat Market at 155 Main Street, in the Music Hall block. The Quintals developed a locally-smoked meat business, which opened in 1946 as Oscar's Smoked Meats at their present location on Raymond Lane. The original meat market was sold to their butcher, Eric Walker, in 1948. Sons Jack and Jerry took over the business when Oscar died in 1978 and now Oscar's grandson, Joq is partner with his dad, Jerry. Edith died in 1993. A fire on Labor Day week-end, 2009 destroyed the building but not the business and Oscar's re-opened in a larger modern, "green" building the follow-ing February. After seventy years the business continues to Oscar and Edith Quintal in front of their first store in the Music Hall Block. (Museum collection.)thrive. Oscar's has become a house-hold name on an international scale, with wholesale distribution and internet mail order accounts.
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