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1908 advertisement for shoulder pads.
NOTE: 5th in a series of tracing lost or forgotten venues, trophies, and artifacts in the Old Pueblo.
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From the 1890s through the 1920s there were two main “sporting goods” stores in the city center, one of which mainly sold bicycle repairs, tennis equipment, and even auto parts, and the other of which sold much of it, as well as soccer clothing and safety equipment.
The KL Hart Store began as a gun store in the 19th century and expanded into options such as golf clubs and tennis equipment under the Smith Sporting Goods Company name and then SF Bauman in a camera equipment store in the 1910s. This was on the 17th E. Congress, which is now an alley used by the Nook restaurant.
At the same time, around 1908, the Reid Sporting Goods Co. was located at 44 N. Stone. By 1920, WL Reid left his business to run a toy store and the Tucson Auction Company. His shop was swallowed up by Montgomery Ward. Today it is called the “Roy Place Building” and is used by the University of Arizona and the startup Tucson. This was the first store where real sports equipment like Spalding shoulder pads was available.
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