On this date in 1983, Rudy Sauer, a longtime Moorhead furniture dealer and former lawn builder, closed his Sunnyside 75 Furniture Mart after 26 years in business.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

By Bob Lind

Staff Writer

Rudy Sauer is firm of jaw, firm of opinion

And his mind is made up. After selling new, used and antique furniture at his Sunnyside 75 Furniture Mart south of Moorhead for 26 years, he's going out of business.

Will he miss it? “After you've worked seven days a week, 12 hours a day, I don’t know if I'll miss it or not,” he says.

And so Sauer is conducting a going-out-of-business sale. He's moved his new and used furniture from his U.S. Highway 75 location to temporary quarters at 1805 2nd Ave. N. in Moorhead and letting it all go.

“Wha

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