Businesses continued to come and go in Spartansburg. Longstanding businesses change hands and keep on going… And, while advertising in 2020 is often done using social media, getting the word out is still vital to keeping customers coming through the doors. Doohers owned a hardware and grocery in town in 1923. Members of PJ Dooher’s family still live in Spartansburg Doohers-“The Square Deal Store” Nationwide Stores came to town in the 1930s. It was a chain store probably located at the corner of Main and Water Street-across from Fish Ford 1936-Iced Coffee In 1950, Spartansburg Woolen Mills/Tauber Woolen Mills offer their Luxury Comforts The Tauber Mill- later the Spartansburg Mill…

New brick buildings were erected following the 1898 and 1905 fires. The buildings that housed many of the businesses who advertised in the Spartansburg Sentinel and Titusville Herald are still in use today. 1914 Ad- Notice the phone number. The Winans Block was to the right of the IOOF Building. CL Rexford advertised Drugs, Jewelry and Notions- Chicken feed must have been a “notion” The CL Rexford Company was busy in 1917-obviously expanding from Jewelry and Drugs to other things that folks in town needed. They continued in business in 1920, adding electronics to their offerings. The merchants in Spartansburg wanted to be sure that folks were purchasing things they…