US (IN): Lamprecht's Florist & Greenhouse closes after 92 years
Lamprecht's Florist and Greenhouse at 8941 Kleinman Road, which first opened in 1923, is out of business. The phone number is disconnected, and a sign outside says "thank for your 92 years."
Charles and Hattie Lamprecht, a gardener who loved flowers, opened the third-generation floral shop at the Kleinman Road location, where they built a greenhouse that had belonged to a pickle factory at their seven-acre "truck farm," according to The Times archives. They would ship cabbage and other produce to Hammond and East Chicago, and customers would come and dig up blooming plants like geraniums.
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