The middle-class shopping district extended from Pearl Street up Monroe Avenue to Fulton Street, from the Dime Stores past Wurzburg's and Steketee's to Herpolsheimer's.
This page shows the Dime stores from Woolworth's (Now National City Bank) but the rest are all gone, taken by a new Monroe Street when Monroe was converted to Monroe Center, a pedestrian mall. .
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This page shows Herpolsheimer's at the corner of Fulton, Division and Monroe now the Police Department. .
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This page shows Wurzburg's, the Savoy movie theater and the old Mutual Home Savings and Loan
From article Downtown
From Heading History and the City of GrandRapids
From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info