Majors Books At 7205 Fannin St.

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I was reading the newspaper The Rice Thresher dated April 21, 1995 and came across a business advertisement for Majors Books located at 7205 Fannin Street.

Majors Scientific Books, Inc. dates back to the 1900s. The company is based out of Dallas, Texas.

It all began with John Albert Majors, a medical student who helped pay his way through school by selling books to doctors. Upon his graduation, he became Dr. J.A. Majors and continued selling books through the W.B. Sanders Co. to raise the money needed to open his own practice. He soon recognized that doctors throughout his assigned area were constantly clamoring for the most updated information on procedures, studies and treatments. Majors would haul the publisher’s books from office to office in Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi, and ultimately decided to open his own storefront in New Orleans in 1909. The small store carried medical books from multiple publishers and was located not accidentally across the street from Tulane University School of Medicine.

In Houston, Majors Books had two locations. 6640 South Main and 7205 Fannin.