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20  GUIDE TO YELLOW SPR INGS  |  2020 – 2021 recalled. In addition to old treasures, the store stocked music supplies and also wood stoves. The Molladoor moved around quite a bit. It was in the Bonadies build- ing, the building that now houses the Emporium, above the Winds, a spot on Dayton Street and next to the Yellow Springs News. Perhaps its most prominent location was in the build - ing now owned by Dunphy Real Estate after the Village Bakery moved out in 1974, with a wood stove installed right in the middle of the shop. Cooking dinner and discover you need a food mill or 6 more dessert plates? Problem solved for less than $3 and a two block walk. —Krista Magaw During the store’s last 20 years, Patti and Evelyn played Scrabble every day; the board was kept under the counter. Reflecting on her time in the store, Sikes said it was all fun — find - ing unique items at auction, being with her good friend and getting the scoop on village news. They could have been in the Guiness Book for longest running Scrabble games. —Marcia Wallgren “It was fun to know what was going on in town. We knew everything,” she said. “And also to get to know people who otherwise we wouldn’t have. There were some real characters in town back then.” In the last incarnation of Molladoor, Ed Dietz, an antique dealer who ran Calu - met, shared the space next to the Yellow Springs News with them. Both closed in 2005. Com’s Tavern Responding to the fact that there were no restau- rants that would serve Black people in the community, Goldie Williams and her hus- band Hillard “Com” opened Com’s Restaurant in 1945. An after-Friday-night Antiochian folk dancers’ hangout in the ’60s. Great pizza, quarts of Blatz beer, and Aretha Franklin on the jukebox!! — David Kuder Soul food, Black-owned, some of the best food and atmosphere ever. —Andrea Cobbs-Waterman Opening the restaurant involved moving the building that would house it from its original location at High and Davis streets to a site just west on Davis Street. Specializing in Goldie’s fried chicken, the restaurant flourished and was popular with people of all races and ages. The first interracial eating establishment in Yellow Springs, it was owned and operated by Williamses for 27 years. The restaurant later operated as DG’s, Tricia Di’s and Sharon’s before it closed for good and became a private residence. Village Bakery Local baker Dick Har- wood’s midnight donuts were legendary. Even Jorma Kaukonen, an Antioch stu - dent who went on to play in Jefferson Airplane, has reminisced about the late night treat and the all-night folk music hootenannies that took place there. Harwood, of Springfield, came to town when he was recruited to be the baker at a new deli that some locals were starting here in the 1950s, among them Dr. Martin Cook, Mary Porter and Walter Anderson. It was located where the Winds Wine Cellar is now. After working there several years, Harwood bought the deli and turned it into The Village Bakery. He later moved the business down the block to what is now the location of the Dunphy Real Estate office. I was still pre-adolescent, but when our family went to a Cincinnati Reds night game, we would arrive back late and get some still-warm donuts, which were delicious. You could sit on the steps eating the warm donut and watch the bank clock spin. —Dan Schiff The Village Bakery exem- plified the term “scratch bakery,” where everything is homemade and fresh, according to a News article. The business was also the center of life at night in Yellow Springs. Many vil- lagers, especially students at Antioch College, would frequently be found outside the bakery around 11:30 p.m., waiting for the first batch of Dick’s hot, fresh donuts. Harwood called it an “oasis in the night.” After 17 years of continual operation, Harwood closed The Village Bakery in 1974. Dick And Tom’s A local institution for more than 30 years, Dick & Tom’s was a coffee shop and res - taurant owned and operated by Dick and Babs Bullen in the space now occupied by the Sunrise Cafe. PHOTO: JIM PETERS Com’s Tavern on West Davis Street was a popular neighborhood restaurant and bar founded in 1945 when no downtown restaurant would serve Black people. It’s now a private residence. PHOTO: ANTIOCHIANA, ANTIOCH COLLEGE Village Bakery can be spotted at right during a Sidewalk Sale in 1974.