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Photo of Shoppers World Building Brettwood Village, Pershing Road.

Photograph of Shoppers World Building and Parking Lot located at Brettwood Village corner of Pershing Road and Water Street (Rt 51N).

Tags: 1960's, Brettwood Village, BS2108, Business, Clothing, Decatur IL., Department Store, Home Furnishings, Household Goods, Pershing Rd & N. Water Sts., Retail, Shoes, Shoppers World

Photos of K-Mart Store Interior.

Photographs of the K-Mart Store Interior, ribbon cutting, customers, employees and parking lot. Store was located Rt. 36 East and Rt. 121.

Tags: 4/24/1968, Auto Supplies, BS1728, BS1729, BS1730, BS1731, BS1732, BS1733, BS1734, Business, Clothing, Customers, Department Store, Electronics, employees, Food Counter, Home Goods, interior, Mt. Zion Area, Rt 36E & Rt 121, Shoes

Photos of the new K-Mart on Rt. 36 and Rt. 121, Mt. Zion Area.

Photographs of the new K-Mart located on Rt 36 E.

Tags: 4/30/1965, BS1723, BS1724, BS1725, BS1726, BS1727, Business, Clothing, Construction, Department Store, Electronics, Home Goods, K-Mart, Mt. Zion IL., Rt. 36 E & Rt 121, Shoes

Photos of J. C. Penny Store 1940's

Photographs of the J. C. Penny Store located on N. Water St., Decatur, IL. during the 1940's.

Tags: 6/4/1945, BS1699, BS1700, BS1701, BS1702, BS1703, BS1704, BS1705, building, Business, c. 1947, Clothing, Corner North & N. Water Sts., Decatur IL., Department Store, Household Goods, J. C. Penny, N. Water St., Shoes

Photos of the Goldblatt's Store Interior and Statement.

Photograph of customers using the escalator and Goldblatt's statement "Where Fashion and Quality Cost Less."

Tags: Automotive, BS1506, BS1507, Business, Clothing, Decatur IL., Department Store, Fairview Plaza, Home Goods, Housewares, interior, jewelry, Shoes, statement

Photo of Block & Kuhl after the fire

Photograph of the Block & Kuhl Building after the fire. Three young boys looking at the fire damage. Block & Kuhl was a department store located at 259 N. Water St., Decatur, IL.

Tags: Block & Kuhl, BS963, Business, Clothing, Decatur Gun Club, Decatur IL., Department Store, fire, Furniture, Household Goods, Shoes

Richard Rodgers' Oral History #1

This is the first oral history of Richard Rodgers. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on February 8 and 15, 1984. The interview includes his childhood, Decatur around World War I, and his work with Linn and Scruggs.

Tags: 1984, air conditioning, automobiles, Baseball, Betty Turnell, Bijoux Theatre, Blue Book, board room, childhood, chimes, Clothing, Coal Mines, cook's stove, Decatur Civic Orchestra, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Downtown, electricity, Empress Theatre, family orchestra, February 1984, Federal Home Loan Act, Feltman and Curm, FHA, First Methodist Church broadcast, Great Depression, Gushard Building, Gushard store, homogenization, Interurban, interview, John Philip Sousa's band, Lincoln Square, Lincoln Theatre, Linn and Scruggs, marimba, Millikin Orchestra, Millikin University, Music, Musician, Newspapers, oboe, oral history, out houses., pasteurization, public transportation, Pugh School, Radio, recording, refrigeration, Richard Rodgers, Roosevelt Junior High School, salt water taffy, shoe repair, Shoe Store, Shoes, shopping, Stephen Decatur High School, Street Cars, Swarthout Brothers, telephones, The Anvil Chorus, Transfer House, triangle, unpaved streets, vaudeville theatre, vitaphone programs, WJBL station, World War I, WWI, xylophone

Photo of Schiff's Shoe Store

Photograph of the interior of Schiff's Shoe Store, clerks and customers preparing for the grand opening.

Tags: 1949, 322 N. Water St., BS228, Business, Herald and Review, Noel C. Dicks, Photo File: Business, Schiff's Shoe Store, Shoes

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