Thanks to Candice Brown for the identification. The store was owned by Sidney Brown.
Update: Mike Deaton writes that as of 2016, it was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
Brown’s Store, Danville
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Lot has since been cleared.
This building has since been struck by lighting and has burned down…
That is my husbands Uncle Sidney’s old store. Several people have asked to buy it and even my husband has tried to purchase it and reopen it but the family didn’t want to sell it. They rented it out a few times sporadically but it just got run down. Mr. Sidney Brown passed in April 2012.
why did this place shut down?
the owner just got old…He or the family rented the place out for a while to a buddy of mine for a repair shop…but there just is no business in Danville