Selber Bros

The business began in 1907 with a store at 227 Texas Avenue, and it stayed a family firm of brothers for decades. Aaron Selber Jr., born in Shreveport in 1927, came home from Tulane in 1950 and grew it into a regional chain with stores in Louisiana and Texas. He sold the company to Dillard's in 1988 and said that cash rather than merchandise had become his inventory. The family belonged to B'nai Zion Congregation. Three of the four Selber brothers of his father's generation died within nine months, between December 1967 and August 1968.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — steps away
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.3 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.6 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.0 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Strand Theatre — steps away
• Justin Gras — steps away
• Shreve Memorial Library — steps away
• Scottish Rite Cathedral — steps away