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Identifier
20118922
Description
Fort Worth Weekly building at left, located at 1204 W 7th St. Formerly served as one of four automobile sales and service buildings from the 1920s along this stretch of W Seventh Street, this building was first home to Packard Scruggs Co., a Packard dealership managed by A.G. Fisher. Renamed the Packard-Fort Worth Co. after its first year in business, the firm operated here through 1929. A series of dealerships handling Packard and Graham motor cars located here through the mid-1930s when H.B. Ransom opened Fort Worth Motors, Inc. here and sold Chrysler and Plymouth automobiles. About 1945 the name of the business was changed to H.B. Ransom Motor Co., and it operated at this location through the late 1960s. The Firestone Apartment buildings are seen at right.
Archival Date
2000 (Approximately)
Collection Name
Judith S. Cohen Cowtown Moderne Research Collection
Collection Number
AR756-2-20
Original Format
Prints, Color
File Format
JPG
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