CHASE COUNTY
There is no shortage of things to do in Chase County with a recent burst of new businesses. Two of the new businesses are Tin Can Customs in Strong City and Prairie PastTimes Antiques & Crafts in Cottonwood Falls.
Tin Can Customs
Tin Can Customs, 121 Cottonwood St. in Strong City, offers a full-line auto repair shop, specializing in hot rods and rat rods.
The business was opened on Jan. 10 by Christy Copple and Larry Deering, both Chase County residents. Deering has been in the hot rod business since 1989, when he learned how to work on hot rods. The person he was working for at the time asked him if he wanted to work on hot rods. At first he hesitated but within a short time he was in the back room building hot rods. He’s been doing it ever since.
Prairie PastTimes
Prairie PastTimes is owned by Sue Smith, who owns Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls. The business is “an opportunity for individuals to have their own business on ‘Main Street’ by sharing overhead expenses in order to make it affordable for all,” Smith said. “We will always be interested in adding new and unusual, exceptional quality Flint Hills crafts and crafters to the Prairie PastTimes mix.”
Prairie PastTimes is located at The Emporium, 220 1/2 Broadway in Cottonwood Falls in a limestone building that is 71 years old. The building boasts its original wood floors and in addition to holding Prairie PastTimes, it also hosts the monthly Chase County Contra Dance, Second Saturday activities, the bi-annual Victorian Ball, special music and entertainment and the Emma Chase Cafe’s Friday night pickin’s when the weather doesn’t allow the event outdoors.
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Posted by justaflushaway (anonymous) on June 1, 2009 at 7:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I drove by the tin can place yesterday and was wondering where I could see some of the rat rods or hot rods that has been build by the business. There seems to be more of them around town, but don't know who is building them or where they are being built, Some of them look really neat and would be fun to drive, Was any of them built in Tin Can customs. maybe the owners can respond to my questions.
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