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Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather -goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, the company expanded into the hobby market, making leather moccasins and coin purses, making huge ...
Augusta Museum of History. Coordinates: 33.47482°N 81.96060°W. Exterior view, November 2020. The Augusta Museum of History is a history museum located in Augusta, Georgia, U.S. The museum was founded in 1937 to preserve and share the history of Augusta and its surrounding area. [ 1] On display are numerous artifacts, images, and dioramas that ...
Bona Allen Tanners and Manufacturers building Bona Allen Tannery. The Bona Allen Company is a tannery and leather goods factory that opened in 1873 in Buford, Georgia.It became the nation's largest producer of hand-tooled saddles, bridles, horse collars, postal bags, cowboy boots, and shoes and had a contract to supply the sporting equipment giant, Spalding, with raw material for the ...
View of Augusta, from Summerville, 1872, by Harry Fenn; Augusta annexed Summerville in 1912. Augusta, Georgia was founded in 1736 as part of the British colony of Georgia, under the supervision of colony founder James Oglethorpe. It was the colony's second established town, after Savannah. Today, Augusta is the second-largest city in Georgia ...
04000515. Added to NRHP. June 11, 2004 [ 1] Sacred Heart Cultural Center. Augusta Downtown Historic District is a historic district that encompasses most of Downtown Augusta, Georgia and its pre- Civil War area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [ 1]
By 1961, Tandy Leather was operating 125 stores in 105 cities of the United States and Canada and the company name was changed to Tandy Corporation. [6] In 1963, Tandy Corporation acquired management control of the Radio Shack Corporation and, after two years, Charles Tandy had turned the company's $4 million loss into a profit. During that ...
July 20, 1978 (Reynolds St. Augusta: 5: Augusta Downtown Historic District: Augusta Downtown Historic District: June 11, 2004 (Roughly bounded by 13th St., Gordon Hwy., Walton Way and the Savannah R.
Charles David Tandy (15 May 1918 – 4 November 1978) was the chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the Tandy Corporation. [ 1 ] Early life