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ALAN RUDY - A Houston Real Estate Icon
A 4-Star Restaurant Catered Our
Company’s Picnics in Hermann Park
By Bill Cherry
There’s an interesting paradox.  Most of America – its governments, its factories and its businesses – for nearly the first two hundred years was primarily built by people with varying degrees of education.
But what is empirical is that at least percentage-wise, not much of America’s workforce had ever attended a college or university.  Mostly, the U.S. was built on aggregated street smarts.
Nevertheless, in America’s formative years, interest, desire and tenacity easily overtook the need for a serious amount of formal education.

And that is a fair assessment of the successes of Houston businessman, Israel Rudy and his older son, Alan.   
Israel Rudy and Morris Kagan opened a grocery store and butcher shop on Houston’s Washington Avenue a long time ago.  It became what today we would call a super market.  They were young then, and with small children.
The store prospered.
The store took on serious growth just after World War II, when Houston’s population expansion began to validate as being far more than that of an aberration.
Oil was fast becoming the king of the Texas economy while contemporaneously the City of Houston was becoming ... more

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