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Revision as of 22:59, 9 December 2012
Odum, Bowers & White (originally Cotton, Odum & Bowers) was a clothing store founded by W. W. Odum and later adding partner Harry L. White. The store carried Henry Sonneborn & Sons and B. Kuppenheimer & Co. and advertised heavily. The store occupied the original S. H. Kress & Co. building at 1915 3rd Avenue North.
An April 13m 1939 fire caused $250,000 in damage to the store and its merchandise. The upper floors were gutted, while the ground floor suffered extensive water and smoke damage.
The store planned a second location at the Mountain Brook Shopping Center] when it was under construction in the late 1950s.
Joe Watkins served as company president before the business was sold in 1978.