This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACE/712.714 Message Board Post: The correct name was the "Fred Reuping Leather Co." I was raised in Fond du Lac, born there in 1941. My parents, Fred and Jo Gumz owned the Commander Bar on 1st street from 1939 to 1956. We lived above the business and often roller skated past Reupings. Many of the family friends in the forty's and fifty's worked at Reupings. It was a very going business in those days. I honestly don't recall the year it closed but it did indeed exist and prosper.