Community Effort

ID: 719 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Institute for Oral History, Baylor University

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The original location of Reed's Flowers was at 1025 Austin Avenue. Though opened during the difficult times of the Great Depression, the shop thrived because of support from family friends, and other Wacoans.

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Reed's Flowers

By Amanda Sawyer

The story of Reed’s Flowers is as much about its founder, Albert Harry Reed, as it is about the shop. Reed emigrated from London, England, in 1908 at the behest of his brother, Tom Reed. The two Reed brothers worked side by side in Waco as growers…