Creative Displays

ID: 722 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Institute for Oral History, Baylor University

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Shortages during WWII necessitated that Reed's get creative with its resources. Often, recycled, cleaned-out, and decorated oil-cans served as makeshift vases for floral displays.

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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…