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The Rurode Dry Goods Co. Dept. Store, 1911

By OSP

Fort Wayne Reader

2014-01-27

This is an interior shot of the Rurode Dry Goods Company Department Store. This enormous emporium of turn-of-the-century consumer stuff probably featured everything that one could not get at the grocery store or farmer supply store. The Rurode Co. was located at (the corner of) 708-712 Calhoun Street, and 111-115 West Main Street. Photo from: Fort Wayne with Might and Main, published in 1911 (subtitled “Indiana’s Busiest, Happiest City”).