Shower Brothers Bloomington

[George Lortz]

Here's a couple of postcards of Shower Brothers in Bloomington.  Sorry for the poor quality.  I believe it was close to McDoel Yards.  There's railroad tracks showing in the foreground of the first image and a right-of-way in the background of the second image.  I don't know the time frame of these images.

George L.

[Ron Marquardt]

George, Shower's factory was downtown, about three or four blocks north of the passenger station.  The building, or at least part of it, is still there.  I think it's been converted to offices and such.  / Ron

[Jim Osborne]

I did the engineering for that building's renovation into office space sometime in the '90's. Spent full a summer communting every day down to Bloomington inspecting the structure. As I recall, so much of the wood roof turned out to be rotted that virtually the entire thing was removed and replaced.

My grandfather worked there making furniture in the '20's.

[Christopher Stone]

This was just released in paperback. My copy is on order; I haven't received it yet, so I can't comment on the quality of the writing or photographs.

http://www.amazon.com/Showers-Brothers-Furniture-Company-University/dp/0253002036/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369798371&sr=8-1&keywords=showers+brothers+bloomington