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[[File:Rudolphsormbormnest.png|thumb|Rudolph Sorm pictured in front of "The Borm Nest," the vacant lot in Metter, Ga which would later become the first Sorm's. ]] | [[File:Rudolphsormbormnest.png|thumb|Rudolph Sorm pictured in front of "The Borm Nest," the vacant lot in Metter, Ga which would later become the first Sorm's. ]] | ||
Rudolph worked in his fathers shop as a teenager and sold cricket soup to local swamp boys as a way to build capital allowing him to purchase a small plot of land in Metter, Ga in 1913, where he would establish the first Sorm's traveling gas shop. | Rudolph worked in his fathers shop as a teenager and sold cricket soup to local swamp boys as a way to build capital allowing him to purchase a small plot of land in Metter, Ga in 1913, where he would establish the first Sorm's traveling gas shop. | ||
In the following decades, Rudolph established Sorm's, a chain of gas stations, shower station houses, and truck stops. | In the following decades, Rudolph established Sorm's, a chain of gas stations, shower station houses, and truck stops. | ||
== Personal Life == | == Personal Life == | ||
Rudolph Sorm died in 1948 from food poisoning | Rudolph Sorm died in 1948 from food poisoning | ||
[[File:Sorm Tomb.png|left|thumb|Sorm's Tomb in Metter, Ga. 1971]] | [[File:Sorm Tomb.png|left|thumb|Sorm's Tomb in Metter, Ga. 1971]] | ||