from Seeing Spartanburg: A History in Images by Phillip N. Racine

THE SQUARE (1905).

In this 1905 picture of Morgan Square, Greenwald's has moved out of the Duncan Building and True's department store has moved in. True's opened for business in 1905, saying it would sell quality merchandise for the lowest prices Spartanburg had ever seen.

True's advertised that the store bought for cash and expected to sell for cash.

The opening of a new department store was news in itself, but True's had an extra attraction–the first elevator in Spartanburg. Floyd Liles had installed the elevator when he operated a store here, but True's made the most of the novelty by bringing epople in "just for the ride."

To the left of True's, just across Magnolia Street, is the First National Bank, and farther down the street the Spartan Inn and the Opera House.

(Postcard view courtesy of thc Spartanburg Herald-Journal)