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<p>[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 277944, member: 136"]The addressee on the label, Abe Mann, was listed as the <i>Selling Agent</i> for Currahee Furniture in the 1937-38 <i>American Jewish Times.</i> Mann was shown as Selling Agent for several other furniture manufacturers, as well, (until at least 1945) operating from a showroom/sales location, The American Furniture Mart, at 206 Lexington Ave in NYC.</p><p><br /></p><p>from: <i>1937-38 The American Jewish times</i></p><p><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/americanjewishti160unse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/americanjewishti160unse" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/americanjewishti160unse</a> </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Currahee Furniture itself was <b>started in 1925</b> in Toccoa, GA:</p><p><br /></p><p>from<i> The Iron Age, </i>Volume 116, David Williams, 1925:</p><p><i>The Currahee Furniture Co has begun the erection of a new plant, 60 x 640(?) (illegible) feet, for the manufacture of furniture specialties, and will install machinery to give employment to about 100. George D. Trogdon is manager.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&dq=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&dq=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&dq="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD</a></i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Currahee Furniture was <b>sold in 1953</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>LULLABYE BUYS CURRAHEE; Georgia Plant to Be Converted to Juvenile Furniture Lines</i></p><p><font size="4">SPECIAL TO<i> THE NEW YORK TIMES - </i>APRIL 11, 1953</font></p><p><i><i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/archives/lullabye-buys-currahee-georgia-plant-to-be-converted-to-juvenile.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/archives/lullabye-buys-currahee-georgia-plant-to-be-converted-to-juvenile.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/archives/lullabye-buys-currahee-georgia-plant-to-be-converted-to-juvenile.html</a></i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>The plant continued to operate in Toccoa, but it was no longer called Currahee, and it employed many fewer people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lullabye in turn was sold in 1968:</p><p><i>Sale of the Lullabye Furniture Corp., which employs about 200 persons at Stevens Point and another 50 at a plant in Toccoa, Ga., to the Simmons Co. of New York City in an outright cash deal was announced recently in a joint statement by the two firms. ' Simmons said that Lullabye. a manufacturer of juvenile furniture, would continue operations with substantially the same personnel.</i></p><p><i>Janesville Daily Gazette, </i>Janesville, Wisconsin · Page 10</p><p>January 4, 1968</p><p>from: <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10175666/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10175666/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10175666/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Currahee Furniture Co that Patd mentions above is a different entity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 277944, member: 136"]The addressee on the label, Abe Mann, was listed as the [I]Selling Agent[/I] for Currahee Furniture in the 1937-38 [I]American Jewish Times.[/I] Mann was shown as Selling Agent for several other furniture manufacturers, as well, (until at least 1945) operating from a showroom/sales location, The American Furniture Mart, at 206 Lexington Ave in NYC. from: [I]1937-38 The American Jewish times [URL]https://archive.org/details/americanjewishti160unse[/URL] [/I] Currahee Furniture itself was [B]started in 1925[/B] in Toccoa, GA: from[I] The Iron Age, [/I]Volume 116, David Williams, 1925: [I]The Currahee Furniture Co has begun the erection of a new plant, 60 x 640(?) (illegible) feet, for the manufacture of furniture specialties, and will install machinery to give employment to about 100. George D. Trogdon is manager. [I][URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&dq=%22currahee+furniture%22+%22toccoa+ga%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD']https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&dq="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD[/URL][/I] [/I] Currahee Furniture was [B]sold in 1953[/B]: [I]LULLABYE BUYS CURRAHEE; Georgia Plant to Be Converted to Juvenile Furniture Lines[/I] [SIZE=4]SPECIAL TO[I] THE NEW YORK TIMES - [/I]APRIL 11, 1953[/SIZE] [I][I][URL]http://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/archives/lullabye-buys-currahee-georgia-plant-to-be-converted-to-juvenile.html[/URL][/I] [/I] The plant continued to operate in Toccoa, but it was no longer called Currahee, and it employed many fewer people. Lullabye in turn was sold in 1968: [I]Sale of the Lullabye Furniture Corp., which employs about 200 persons at Stevens Point and another 50 at a plant in Toccoa, Ga., to the Simmons Co. of New York City in an outright cash deal was announced recently in a joint statement by the two firms. ' Simmons said that Lullabye. a manufacturer of juvenile furniture, would continue operations with substantially the same personnel. Janesville Daily Gazette, [/I]Janesville, Wisconsin · Page 10 January 4, 1968 from: [URL]https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10175666/[/URL] The Currahee Furniture Co that Patd mentions above is a different entity.[/QUOTE]
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