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Rudolph Sorm was born to German immigrants Anna Spenglemaier Sorm and [[Karl Gustaf Sorm]] in Savannah, Georgia in 1898. Sorm's Father, Karl Sorm established a fishing bait and tackle shop on Wilmington Island, Ga in the 1870s, which was a largely uninhabited Island at the time. | Rudolph Sorm was born to German immigrants Anna Spenglemaier Sorm and [[Karl Gustaf Sorm]] in Savannah, Georgia in 1898. Sorm's Father, Karl Sorm established a fishing bait and tackle shop on Wilmington Island, Ga in the 1870s, which was a largely uninhabited Island at the time. | ||
The shop became a premier meeting place for Savannah businessmen and political figures by the 1890s before it was burned in 1907 by an angry mob | The shop became a premier meeting place for Savannah businessmen and political figures by the 1890s before it was burned in 1907 by an angry mob along with [[Heinrich "Spark" Spenglemaier]]'s famous gambling barge [[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. | ||