This business block is one of the oldest in Tyrone. Back in the early 1910s, a 150-foot-long aerial was strung from two large poles over the buildings to provide Tyrone with its first wireless receiving station. 
    The Morris Levine Shoe Store was opened in 1936 in the former Capital Shoe Store. It moved next door (formerly the Kienzle Bakery) in 1971, when the original building was demolished to provide for the 11th St. entrance to the Rt. 220 Bypass. Todd Lewis bought the store in 1988. 
    It was a Tyrone tradition to buy shoes at this store. At the time the store closed in 2003, it was named the Shoe Fly. The business moved to the Pleasant Valley Shopping Center, in Altoona, and is now known as Lasser’s Shoe Fly (a merger of Levine’s Shoe Fly and Lasser’s Shoes). 
    Central Distributors is located in the building that earlier housed the Getz Meat Market, the Keystone Hotel, several luncheonettes, and a drug store. Max Daugherty began Central Distributors about 50 years ago. 
    The Conrad Building (also referred to as the Commerce Building) was built by Fisk Conrad in 1881 as a popular business and entertainment center. The Tyrone Board of Trade and the Tyrone Social Club met here. The Tyrone Chamber of Commerce had its office here from 1916 to the 1950s. The Post Office was here from 1895 to 1930. Under new management, the building has two stores on the first floor — O’s Sew Shop and the Main Moon Chinese Restaurant — and apartments on the second and the third floors.