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PART I THE RUKERT STORY
business were not compatible. Both enterprises had become big enough that they did not function to each other’s advantage. The brothers, recognizing that an era had passed, separated cordially. Cap stuck to the pier business, and George continued to operate the Atlas Safe Deposit & Storage Company on Edmonson Avenue, serving as President until his death in 1973 at the age of 80. Title changes made the separation official, and on October 9, 1930, The Rukert Terminals Corporation was incorporated. Cap’s daughter Dorothy continued to work at the Atlas warehouse with her uncle George until 1936, when she married and became Dorothy Nixon. Now on his own, Cap worked constantly, sometimes sleeping on his desk or on cartons of cigarettes in the dingy Caroline Street office.
ABOVE: Workers move cargo at Jackson's Wharf in the 1930s.
LEFT: A 1930s Rukert stamp and the deed to Jackson’s Wharf. The deed transferred the wharf from Atlas to W.G.N. Rukert
and The Rukert Terminals Corporation. It was the first Rukert-owned property
after the company’s founding.
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