Lumby’s Sisters restaurant now occupies the site of Lumby’s first livery stable which was built by Tommy Christien. Ray Shaeffer and Walter Kampton would later purchase the building and convert the stable to a motor garage. Sadie Major bought the property in 1943 and lived upstairs. She sold to Pete Shumka who demolished the old building and built the “Highway Garage” in 1949. The garage operated on the property until it was sold to Dan Chambers Trucking (DCT). Established in 1964, Dan Chambers and his father Art drove day and night to grow their trucking business.
Disaster struck on April 16, 1982 when the DCT building, including all the business records were destroyed by fire. Dan would eventually leave the company in 1978 to pursue his interests in Anser Industries and Gaby Ventures. Dan was born in 1948 and passed away in 2018 at the age of 70 years.
