PX Fuerth
The former PX is still a vital shopping area. | Reporting Concluded June 2016 | 
View from Fronmuellerstrasse across the junction of Waldstrasse to the place of the former PX main building. | 
The same view, more to the left. In the background the brick mall of the former PX. |
The Commissary - now a garden center.
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The
parking lot of the PhoeniX Center is at the same place as of the former
PX (the main building would be on the left hand side). | 
Opposite view.
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The back side of the former Commissary. Some Eastern European car dealers are busy. |
The back side of the former Commissary across the Waldstrasse..
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The KFC ist still at the Waldstrasse.
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Waldstrasse to the east, KFC is on the right hand side.
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Areal picture from 17 August
2003.
Fronmueller Strasse in the
lower right, the junction with Waldstrasse in the middle. The brown square
above the junction is the location of the former PX. Above that the new
PhoeniX Center.
Still in operation: 1 = Pizza Hut,
3 = Kentucky Fried Chicken, broken down: 2 = Burger King
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23 July 2002:
The new shopping center around the PX was first named "City Limit"
and now renamed to "PhoeniX-Center".
"Limit" seemed to be too limited and PhoeniX (with capital letters
at the beginning and at the end is reminding to the former PX..
Site-Map see Darby-Kaserne.
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Article from the "Fürther Nachrichten"
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(date unknown)
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(date unknown)
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HISTORY:
This area was constructed in 1937 and 1938 and utilized as a Reichsarbeitsdienst
(RAD) Labor Service. It was acquired by the German Reich in 1943. From 1943
to 1945, it was a Police department building and RAD clothing depot.
The area was confiscated by
the U.S. Army in May 1945 along with the private property across Waldstrasse.
The German government bought some of the private property in 1956 (80
and 82 Waldstrasse).
The old part of the PX, the
E-shaped building has been completely removed. A shopping center has moved
in the newer part in the eastern part of the area (former old Commissary/
Community Bank). The commissary now houses a garden center. Pizza Hut
and Kentucky Fried Chicken are (somehow!) still in business, the Burger
King on Waldstrasse has been dismantled.
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20 June 2000 - the former Commissary became a garden center |
The new shopping area"City
Limit" with the "PX Sports Café" on the left (10 May
2002) |
One of the few reminders of the
old facilities (10 May 2002) |
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The PX on 29 February 1992
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A date with the wrecking
ball:
20 June 2000 (above and right) |
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15 July 2000
10 September 2000
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1980s renovations brought a mall to PX land.
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19 June 1994
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Date unknown
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Inside the PX in October 1986 |
Pictures from
Carlton Hamrick
Shopette
far right: Entrance
view of new PX
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Pictures from Werner Bäuerlein (about 1989).
Left: KFC at Waldstrasse
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Below: Golden Gate Disco at Höfener Straße.
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At Waldstraße.
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Photo from the fifties
by Jim Hysinger |
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The old Commissary
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Row above: Opening of the new
Community Bank in July 1989
The Fuerth PX in the fifties
(from Dr. John Caruso Jr.)
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These pictures were mailed
from Roman Kamienski. Must be from the seventies.
Thank you very much, Roman
(13 July 2004).
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Right: "PX was of course
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greatest px ever. Christmas
shopping was great fun and
the liquor section
was fantastic."
(picture - 1961 - and
text by Harry Ross)
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Left: The later PX building under
construction in the thirties as "Bekleidungsamt" (clothing agency)
of the "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" (labour service).
Picture from "Fürth 1933-39 in Fotoreportagen".
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