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“We’re going to auction off my dad’s tasting table, which is pretty neat,” said Art Soell Jr., who owns the property with wife Pat. “And Dad’s wine glass rack, which hung above the table.”
Art Soell Sr., who earlier operated the family business, died in 2001 at age 87. One of the things he was known for was his Cave du Vin wine tasting room.
Some other items to be auctioned at 11 a.m. Sunday include a 5-foot lighted Hamms beer sign, three-section beer clock, collectible advertising signs and shopping carts.
Art Soell Jr. and his wife operated the Mormon Coulee Road store until it closed in December 2004. In April 2006, he began working for the Dave and Barb Skogen family at their Festival Foods stores.
“We’d been talking to Walgreens even before our store closed,” Soell said Monday. But a developer that builds and leases stores to Walgreens later decided to acquire only the Washboard Blues Laundry and Herold’s Motel properties for the planned drugstore.
Another buyer has stepped forward, Soell said, and the sale of his building should be completed by the end of August. Soell declined to name the buyer until after that.
Steve Cahalan can be reached at (608) 791-8229 or scahalan@lacrossetribune.com.
