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Automobile Row Emerges as Cedar Rapids Grows
The Gazette chronicles Cedar Rapids thriving Automobile Row on Fourth Avenue and its shift to Second Avenue from 1901 to 1920. It details early dealers like F D Weaver and the Lattner brothers, later firms such as Iowa Auto & Tire Co and Campbell Auto Co, and the relocation of garages, showrooms, and service stations as the district solidified into a central Midwest auto hub.
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Gazette
Clarence Miller
Cedar Rapids
Fred Cook
Fred W. Faulkes
A Avenue
Faulkes
Miller
The
F.D. Weaver
Fourth Avenue
Second
Third Streets
Middle West
Cedar Rapids Auto & Supply Co
Lattner
Midwest
Iowa Auto & Tire Co
Second Street
Campbell Auto Co
Fourth Ave
Automobile Row
Cedar Rapids Vulcanizing Co
Iowa Motor Car Co
Buick
Mitchell
Oakland
Parry
Cadillac
South Second Street
Foy Supply Co
Cutting
Franklin
Hupmobile
Reo
Rapid
South Third Ave
Chalmers, Hudson, Maxwell, Stoddard-Dayton
White
Waverly Electric
E Central Auto & Machine Co
Regal
North Third Ave
Beck & Son
Beck
First Ave
Second Avenue
Barton-Ford Motor Car Co
J.W. Smith Motor Co
Second Ave
Fifth
Sixth Streets
Lattner Brothers
Cadillac Garage
Kisselbar Co
Studebaker
Campbell Motor Car Co
Eduard Hubner
Paige Automobile Agency
Central Auto & Supply Co
Iowa City
Western Auto Specialty Co
Kelly- Springfield
Murphy Cadillac Co
Rude Auto Co
American Rubber Co
Corn Belt Motor Co
Dodge
Velie
the Gazette
First Street