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In 1946, brothers Roy and Key Furr founded the first Furr's restaurant, which opened in Hobbs in southeastern New Mexico. A second location was opened in Odessa, Texas, in 1947. Furr's was purchased by the Kmart Corp. in 1980, [1] and subsequently sold by Kmart to Michael Levenson's Limited National Partnership in 1988. [citation needed]
C.W. Furr, Roy Furr's father, founded the retail operation in 1904 and operated the stores primarily in west Texas. Roy Furr entered the retail business, ultimately known as Furr's Inc., in 1923 and with his father and older brother Key Furr, began a grocery store expansion in 1929. [1] Eventually the chain expanded into New Mexico. By 1978 ...
The Western Heritage Museum & Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum near Hobbs, New Mexico. It features exhibits depicting the history of the Llano Estacado region of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. Opened in January 2006, the museum is housed in a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m 2) building on the campus of New Mexico Junior ...
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Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area , which includes all of Lea County.
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Roy Hobbs may refer to: Roy Hobbs (baseball), protagonist of The Natural, a 1952 novel about baseball; Roy Hobbs (tennis), Singaporean tennis player
Nineteen-year-old Roy Hobbs is traveling by train to Chicago with his manager Sam to try out for the Chicago Cubs.Other passengers include sportswriter Max Mercy; Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the leading hitter in the American League and three-time American League Most Valuable Player (based on Babe Ruth); and Harriet Bird, a beautiful and mysterious woman.