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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0238
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Tire company
TITLE   Moreman's Tire Company
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of Moreman's Tire Company in Corpus Christi, Texas. Four men stand in a large warehouse filled with racks of tires. The man in the dark suit is owner Alex Moreman. Moreman's sold and serviced Firestone tires and tubes, batteries, brake linings, and rims and parts. Note the rack of used tires. This business was identified in 1975 as being Moreman's. Later research in the 1980s reidentified the company as the Firestone Tire Dealer.
PERSONAL NAME   Moreman, Alex. (aacr2)
SUBJECT   Automobile mechanics. (lcsh)
Automobile repair shops. (lcsh)
Garages. (lcsh)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Merchants. (lctgm)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Warehouses. (lcsh)