Was The Parker gun salesroom ever at 30 Warren Street?

[Copper John]

Does anyone know if there was a Parker gun Salesroom ever at 30 Warren st? And if so during what time frame?

[B. Dudley]

It was. I am not near my copy of TPS currently to confirm what time period. 1902 seems to stick in my mind.

[John Davis]

Not sure if this helps and this isn't to say these are exact, but here is a couple of ads that appeared that gave the address of the NY sales room:

August 17, 1889, American Field, the following advertisement appeared: “The Parker Hammerless Shotgun. The first Parker Hammerless Gun made won the championship of America at Decatur, Ill. It is the safest Hammerless Gun ever made, as hammers cannot be let down to rest on loaded shells. The safety is automatic, also positive and absolutely safe, and the spiral mainsprings employed are guaranteed for twenty-five years. Send for illustrated circular. New York Salesroom, 97 Chambers Street. Parker Bothers, Makers, Meriden, Conn.”


August 17, 1907, The Sportsmen’s Review, “ A catalogue that will be invaluable to prospective gun purchasers will be sent on request by Parker Bros., 40 Cherry Street, Meriden, Conn. The New York salesrooms are at 32 Warren Street, where a full line of these good guns may be seen.”

[B. Dudley]

In chapter 17 of TPS, The catalogs table notes:

32 Warren as being the salesroom address starting in the 1903 Catalog. It is also the address not he 1903 price list.
The 1913 "Small Bore Shotgun booklet" lists the NYC showroom as still being 32 Warren.
It changes to 25 Murray St. in the 1916 "Small Bore Shotgun" booklet.

[Pa SxS]

If you look at a street map of Manhattan, NY, you'll find that Warren St., Chambers St., and Murray St. are all withing a block or two of each other in downtown Manhattan. There were other sporting goods stores and firearms stores in that same area too.

[charlie cleveland]

those were good times....charlie

[edgarspencer]

Lets not forget they were also on Beekman St.
When they were at 32 Warren St, they also occupied 34 and 36, but the address the post office, and their brochures used, was 32.

Charlie, you're right, those were the good old days. In the early days of the wireless (radio) there were many shops in Lower Manhattan that sold radios. After WW2, many military surplus stores opened up and they, too were in that area. Vesey St, Chambers,, and the big one, Canal street were haunts of mine when I was a kid. Except for Canal St., those streets no longer exist because they were swallowed up by the footprint of the World Trade district.

[TARNATION !!!]

Originally Posted by John Davis

...and the spiral mainsprings employed are guaranteed for twenty-five years...

Significantly underestimated. I have yet to encounter mainsprings that do not perform. Even after cleaning a lot of rust out of the frame cylinders in which they have resided for over 100 years. Well done Mr. Parker. Cheers Jack

[Bill Murphy]

I remember my dad leading me around the retail and wholesale gun districts in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, you name it. He didn't have to lead me around the gun districts in Washington, D.C. I found them on my own. I'm sure such districts existed in every major city. I think it was all over by the mid sixties.

[Drew Hause]

Nice neighborhood

J.H. Lau & Co. at 75 Chambers
New York Sporting Goods Co. at 17 Warren

Broadway in New York City was Gun & Sporting Dealers row:
American "E.C." & "Schultze" at 318;
Schoverling, Daly & Gales at 302-304;
H&D Folsom at 314 after 30 Warren, then 15 Murray;
Von Lengerke & Detmold at the corner of 5th Ave. and Broadway;
W. Fred Quimby Co. at 294;
Hartley & Graham then Remington Arms 313-315;
Hunter Arms opened a show room at 300, No. 310 in 1897.