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In 1881, Balzer's son John A. became a partner, and when the founder died in 1888, the son took over. In the early 1900s, as automobiles began to displace horses, the factory shifted operations to the manufacture of auto bodies, like many other wagon makers. In 1928 they added welding services and in 1934 auto body repair.
Gina Escobedo and her daughter Emely, 2, wave at the wagons and floats making their way down Houston Street during the Fort Worth Stock Show All Western Parade in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday ...
The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, north of the central business district. A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in 1976. [ 1 ]
Fisher Body's beginnings trace back to a horse-drawn carriage shop in Norwalk, Ohio, in the late 1800s. Lawrence P. Fisher (1852 Peru, Ohio – 1921, Norwalk, Ohio) and his wife Margaret Theisen (1857 Baden , Germany – 1936 Detroit, Michigan) had a large family of eleven children; seven were sons who would become part of the Fisher Body ...
Boot Barn added 44 stores in the past 12 months, to a total of 333 in 41 states (including more than a dozen in Dallas-Fort Worth). A decade ago, Boot Barn had only 88 stores, none of them east of ...
The construction of the Sheboygan store was affected by the collapse of an exterior wall that killed a stonemason, and the store opened with a memorial stone and flagpole overlooking the valley below dedicated in his honor. [18] In 1996, ShopKo announced plans to merge with Phar-Mor, an Ohio-based chain, but those plans were later called off. [19]
SHEBOYGAN - Until a devastating fire in 1977, the city had a downtown recreation mecca called the Playdium at 713 New York Avenue. Here is a postcard from the Sheboygan County Historical Research ...
Fleetwood was purchased by Fisher Body in 1925, and became an OEM provider of bodies for Detroit Assembly on Clark Street, and integrated into General Motors in 1931. The factory was located at the southwest corner of Fort Street and West End Street in the Detroit neighborhood of Delray , approximately 2 miles east of the Ford River Rouge Complex .