Vogelaar brothers open house marks store expansion
Friday and Saturday events celebrate Gary and Ben Vogelaar expanding their Pella hardware and implement business. The article notes Gary's postwar start in 1919, Ben joining in 1920, moves from Oskaloosa, growth in tractors, implements, and cars, plus staff including Helen Neenesach, Arnold and James Wittenburg, and Lane Vogelaar keeping a welcoming store atmosphere. Bernie Vogelaar recently qualified in agricultural engineering and moved into the plant’s operations.
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Expansion of Service Department Bulletin of New Store Upgrades
The Service Department staff welcomes customers as the store expands. A remodeled main building adds a fifty by sixty foot display room with twin south and west show windows. A new thirty six by sixty foot shop houses a wash rack hydraulic hoist and modern machinery including a motor analyzer and valve grinder. White painted insulated walls, a large basement housing the heating plant, and new stock rooms with indexed parts bins accompany seven thousand square feet on the ground floor and a second floor thirty by sixty feet for hardware storage.
Vogelaar Store Adds Albert Van Zee And Hints At Family Lead
The article notes the Vogelaar Store expanding with Albert Van Zee, who returned to hardware work after a stint elsewhere. It mentions the younger son, now a Pele la High School student, as a probable future leader when his father retires, signaling a family succession plan.
Vogelaur Department Store Plans Grand Display Area Lounge
An elevator will carry merchandise to and from a show room. Fluorescent lighting will be installed throughout the building including display windows. A Ladies Rest Room and Lounge of about ten by twelve feet is in the northwest corner of the display room with rockers and a magazines table. Shoppers will tell husbands to pick them up at Vogelaur when ready to go home. The Lounge faces Franklin Street and East Street.
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Vogelaar Store invites readers to open house weekend
Every reader is invited to visit the Vogelaar Store on Friday and Saturday, day or evening, to see what has been done and enjoy a warm welcome.
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