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Not a great image, but it shows what was on the Coppins site before the Coppins Building. Note tracks down  the center of Madison Avenue Coppins second location, next to Motch's on Madison

 

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The Coppins Building Department
Store and Office Building
The Coppin Building, 1912
Northern Kentucky's Greatest
Department Store and Office Building

 

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Coppins demo's some new thing called a telephone
from the Kentucky Post, April 1, 1924
Get a deal on a photo at Coppins, c. WWI

Is it true that John Coppin got his stake in the department store by winning money on a horse named Knowledge in 1907? That's what we've read, but not something we've verified.


Coppins, Covington, Kentucky
Coppins, Covington, Kentucky
Entrants in Coppins'
1931 Baby Contest
The Coppins Float, in Cincinnati's
Ohio Valley Exposition. 
More Exposition Cards at Don
Prout's Cincinnati Views

 

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Typical ad
January 6, 1909, Kentucky Post

Coppins ad publishes a history of Coppins
Kentucky Post March 23, 1923

 

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In the 1937 Flood
from a Facebook post by Cindy Alexander

 

John R. Coppin

John R. Coppin

A history of Coppins from 1958.

newWe've read that in 1907, John Coppin bet his last few dollars on a horse named Knowledge, which won, and gave Coppin that money to start his store. Except Coppins began in 1873. So there's that.

 

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Supreme Council The International Liberty Union of the World  Covington, Ky, USA, 1913
(They just had offices here. That's the Coppins Building.)

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