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ARTS CRAFTS PAIR OAK BOOKCASE SHOWCASE DISPLAY CABINETS ANTIQUE AMERICAN GRAND RAPIDS BARRISTER & GLASS DOORS These Grand Rapids Show Case Company showcases were built around the turn of the century and they were considered a "new way" to produce interchangeable units for maximum productivity. Each cabinet has five sections and they are made of straight and quarter sawn oak. And these cabinets have great South Carolina provenance!T is even a short book...Sam Lambert and the New Way Store: A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks. Author unstated. Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids Show Case Co, 1912. A short book (nearly a pamphlet save the hard cover) with a story of a successful clothier who is made even more successful by installing New Way Crystal Show Cases as made by the Grand Rapids Show Case Company. Although t is no date on the label which can still be seen.....t is an order number "2548" and this number appears on all of the pieces of the cabinets. "D W Alderman Manning So Car" is marked on the same side with the order label. These cabinets were in Manning and Alcolu, SC until they were purchased by Luden's store in Charleston. Grand Rapids Show Case Co was in business in Grand Rapids, Michigan from around 1904 until around 1925. Per the Clarendon County Historic Site site, is the information on the Alcolu Sawmill and Burke Brothers Store. Alcolu was established between 1885 and 1890 by D. W. Alderman and Sons as a mill town for their lumber company. The name Alcolu is derived from "Al" as in Alderman, "Co" as in Coldwell (a friend), and "Lu" as in Lula, the only daughter of the Aldermans at that time. In 1947 the mill was sold by the Alderman family to Williams Furniture Company. Williams merged with Georgia Pacific in 1968 and is the present owner. Alva and Willie Burke ran the store from 1954 through the 1980's. The Company Store was built around 1914. When it was built, Alcolu was a company town w everybody worked at the lumber mill and were paid in "babbit", metal coins stamped with an "A". At the Company Store they could buy groceries, see the doctor, or watch a show in the 200 seat theater upstairs. The building still looks very much as it did in the early 1900's and is now used as an antique showroom. is some other information about the Aldermans from the Institute of Southern Studies. In 1885 Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Alderman came to Clarendon County from Mullins, but he was originally from eastern North Carolina. In fact, he and his wife are buried at Wells Chapel, North Carolina, which was their home. Mrs. Alderman was a Wells before they married, and the "W." in Mr. Alderman's name was for Wells. He may have been named for the Rev. David Wells, who eventually became his father-in-law. Mr. Alderman started a "ground" circular saw mill on the Juneburn Road. In a year or two the town of ALCOLU was started. It is five miles northwest of Manning on the road to Sumter. He was the founder and president of D. W. Alderman & Sons Company, the large lumber corporation in Alcolu, South Carolina and was also president of Alcolu Railroad and the Alderman Department Store in Manning, South Carolina. Per the Charleston Post & Courier on April 9, is the history in a nutshell of J.J.W. Luden's. Company records were lost in the hurricane of 1911, but newspaper accounts from the early part of the century say that J.J.W. Luden opened a hay and grain business on Vanderhorst Street sometime before or shortly after the Civil War. The company goes by a startup date of 1867, making it among the oldest ship chandleries in the nation. Late 1870s or early 1880s: J.J.W. Luden opens a store at the northwest corner of East Bay and Queen streets, and later moves to 156-158 East Bay. 1918: Louis Luden acquires the business from his uncle, Martin J. Luden. Other members of the family, Fred H. Luden and Alvin H. Luden, also are associated with the business. 1964: Herbert J. Butler acquires the business for an undisclosed sum. 1965: Butler ... 
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