HISTORY OF THE ELM'S
1936 was an interesting year to say the least. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to his second term as President of the United States, the Hoover Dam was finally completed creating hydroelectric power, and The Ohio State University track star Jesse Owens won four Olympic gold medals in Berlin to the infuriation of Adolf Hitler.
And as the Great Depression continued to linger into another summer, and take its toll across the country Luther Hudson Williams and his family decided to go into business.
Though the Elm's Pizza Parlor has only been serving food to Central Ohio since 1984, its roots stretch all the way back to 1936, when Luther Hudson Williams purchased the building on 113 East Elm Street to start his own Chevrolet car dealership.
The new dealership was called Hud's Chevrolet Sales and was the only Chevrolet dealership in Granville. "Hud", as the townspeople called him, sold Chevrolet models like the Bel Air, El Camino, Impala, and the Corvair.
Hud's son, Bernard Williams, grew up around the dealership and starting around the age of 5 years old, learned the trade of selling automobiles along side his father. Hud's Chevrolet would be the Williams family business all the way up until 1963.
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