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312 TEXAS ALMANAC.-1952-1953.
Personal and Business Services.-State Totals.-(Continued.)
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x.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- -_ .P zAutomobile repair services and garages, total .............
Automobile repair shops ..............................
General automobile repair shops...................
Battery and ignition repair and service shops .
Glass replacement and repair shops ..................
Paint shops ...................................
Radiator repair shops ..............................
Tire repair shops..............................
Top and body repair shops ................ ......
Automobile repair shops, n.e.c. ...............
Brake repair shops...........................
Wheel, axle, spring repair shops...............
Other automobile repair shops, n.e.c ..............
Automobile rentals (without drivers) ..................
Automobile storage, parking .... ..................
Storage garages ...................................
Parking lots ................... .......... ......
Automobile services (exc. repair)....................
Automobile laundries ...........................
Automobile services, n.e.c.......................
Miscellaneous repair services, total .....................
Blacksmith shops ......... ......... ....... .........
Electrical repair shops ........... .............
Radio repair shops ............................
Refrigerator service and repair shops.............
Other electrical repair shops (inc. electrical appliance
repair shops) .
Upholstery, furniture repair shops ................
Watch, clock, jewelry repair shops.................
Miscellaneous repair shops ....................
Armature rewinding shops ....................
Bicycle repair shops..............................
Leather goods repair shops ....................
Locksmith, gunsmith shops ... .................
Musical instrument repair shops .....................
Repair shops, n.e.c............................
Lawrr mower sharpening and repair shops.....
Saw, knife and tool sharpening and repair shops.
Sewing machine repair shops ............. ...
Stove repair shops...........................
Taxidermists................................
Typewriter repair shops ..........................
Welding shops...............................
Other repair shops, n.e. c ...................... .6,1691 83,6761 18,223
5,701
4,313
145
78
155
246
90
421
253
21
80
152
40
3981
320
30
9
21
5,2221
8091
1,2301
1411
246
478
693
2.012
141
841
311
811
291
1,6461
39
74
27
14
21
39
311
1,12173,499
50,490
2,226
1,208
1,833
3,120
1,141
7,478
6,003
589
2,932
2,482
2,980
6,879
3,493
3,386
318
181
137
63,689
4,322
11,316
5,636
1,930
3,750
4,365
4,137
39,549
4,017
677
266
878
209
33,502
168
399
217
82
219
325
3,983
28,10915,576
9,573
476
239
616
685
207
2,189
1,591
121
950
520
447
2,088
1,129
959
112
82
30
15,541
823
1,928
793
303
832
1,066
597
11,127
1,089
67
45
170
49
9,707
20
91
20
16
52
59
899
8,5506,569
6,284
4,776
154
85
178
260
84
466
281
24
84
173
24
230
51
179
31
9
22
5,481
858
1,249
848
153
248
513
699
2,162
159
87
32
88
.33
1,763
71
26
15
20
37
342
1,2131,881
1,336
1,029
46
19
43
421
20
8
SO
.57
341
146
461
2801
76
1,637
146
4611
2801
76
105
221
187
622
43
34
9
27
8
501
9
23
14
8
16
17
69
3458,709
7,363
4,695
230
113
330
294
94
941
666
80
347
239
155
1,114
568
546
77
62
15
6,673
434
964
431
150
383
659
312
4,304
427
45
24
75
32
3,701
10
44
15
11
26
35
367
3,193x Withheld to avoid disclosure. ' See index for page reference to detail of the-
n.a. Not available or not applicable. ater and other amusements business.
n.e.c. Not elsewhere classified.EARLY TEXAS MERCHANDISING
No one has written a comprehensive history
of merchandise distribution in Texas, but it
would be an interesting one. The pioneer
retail merchant experienced rough sledding.
Texas had neither roads nor navigable rivers.
During the period of colonization, the
Mexican government tried to discourage
trade between Texas and the United States
and to foster trade with Mexico. But Mexico.
in an almost constant state of political up-
heaval, was in no position to develop trade
with its newcomers from the North.
The earliest flow of commerce from the
United States to Texas was from New Orleans
via Galveston, Velasco, Indianola and other
Texas ports. They were too shallow for ocean-
going vessels and it was necessary to lighter
commerce across the shallow bays. There was
some early steamboat commerce on the San
Jacinto and lower stretches of the Brazos,
Trinity and Sabine; but, before the building
of the railroads, inland Texas consumers got
their "store" goods by wagon freighters.
Later a port of consequence was developed
at Jefferson on the Cypress Bayou, a tribu-
tary of the Red River. Much commerceflowed through this port until the building
of the railroads. There was also occasional
navigation of the Red River as far west as
Preston Bend, Grayson County.
However, the distribution of consumers'
goods in early inland Texas presented almost
as acute a problem as the export of cotton
and other Texas products. The development
of small home industries-grist mill, sawmill.
woodworking plant, even a few early spinning
and iron-working plants-partly solved the
problem by turning Texas' raw products into
consumers' goods on the spot.
After the connection of Texas .with the
northern and eastern states by rail, St. Louis
and Memphis grew in Importance as distribu-
tion centers for Texas. The "drummer" out
of St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans and
other cities to the north and east was a
familiar figure in early Texas commerce.
During this period Galveston was the prin-
cipal wholesale distribution center, followed
later by Houston. It was not until about the
first of the present century that the founda-
tion of the present big wholesaling business,
dependent upon rail commerce from the
north, was laid with the establishment of
houses in Dallas and Fort Worth.
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