LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A piece of Louisville’s past has reemerged downtown, revealing a relic from the city’s early retail days.
At the corner of Fifth and Market streets, crews working on a historic building recently uncovered a long-hidden sign reading “R.B. Grover and Company, Makers of Emerson Shoes.”
“When we uncovered it, it looked like a cast-iron engraving,” said investor Bill Frey. “The signs told you everything, not a cell phone that you were at the right place.”…