I love seeing old murals around Savannah. They often bring character to otherwise easily overlooked places. Frank & Co. was a thriving dry goods wholesaler in late-19th-century Savannah.
Savannah National Historic Landmark District
Frank & Co. Dry Goods Mural, Savannah
Jane Kahn & her husband were the owners I interviewed with back in the 1980’s, I forget his name. I believe this building was used as their wholesale warehouse at that time, while Linens & Things at Oglethorpe Mall was their retail outlet in Savannah. There may also have been a retail outlet at the nearby6 Hilton head SXC Mall, but I can’t say for sure. I believe the Savannah College of Art & Design now uses this building as a theatre. We went to a performance there a number of years ago.
Rafe Semmes
Midway GA
Glad to see you back in South Georgia
Unusual angle to the roof line. Any idea why? This was on what was originally West Broad Street; later renames MLK Boulevard. I believe it is now owned by SCAD.
Not sure, Rafe. They had another location on Broughton in the late 1880s, 1890s. Not sure about this one…
This was a dry goods company well into the mid-1980’s. They had a store at Oglethorper Mall for several years, Linens & Things, I think it was. I interviewed with the owners for a position as warehouse manager in the mid-1980’s; I forget their names, a couple as I recall. I didn’t get the job, but that was OK; They closed the firm a couple of years later, and I got a job that eventually led me to the o9ne I’ve had for 30+ years now.
Intresting this is my family’s old company . My name is Everette Iseman Eisenberg. My great grandmother was a Frank and I will be buried at our plot in bonaventure cemetery. My father and other relatives are in the ground as well as the mausoleum. They births dating to late 1700s