Place 56: Machen's Sporting Goods
1929; 1958; 1985At the massacre intersection within firing distance of the courthouse and theater marquee. The precise side of the junction is inferred.
About Machen's Sporting Goods
Machen’s Sporting Goods is a downtown shop facing the junction associated with the Bradley Gang massacre. In 1929 its proprietor and assistant run from the store into the confrontation, placing the entrance within practical reach of the intersection, courthouse steps and theater marquee. The business remains a named urban landmark across later periods, but the historical episode defines its strongest spatial role on the map. It is represented as a storefront in the compact civic and commercial centre.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
Level A rests on the store’s direct participation in the massacre scene and its firing-distance relationship to the courthouse and theater. These anchors fix it at the correct central junction even though no street number or side of the intersection is supplied. The atlas selects one frontage to make the scene spatially coherent. Its exact lot, facade width, doorway, orientation and distance from the courthouse are illustrative rather than recovered architectural facts.
