Size: 220mm height, 250mm width, 110mm depth

construction: styrene sheet, foamex board, MDF, metal cast pickup

finish: acrylic, ink, oil paint

 

Founded in Chicago in 1958, the now-defunct L. Fish Furniture Co. opened its first Indianapolis store in 1952.

L. Fish’s 19th-century founder, David Fish, named his company after his wife, Lotta Fish. Decades later, as the company became a chain with a dozen locations, the stores played up their name with neon-green fish-shaped signs.

 

In 1993, Richmond, Virginia-based Heilig-Meyers—a now-defunct publicly traded chain that was the largest furniture retailer in the nation in the 1990s—bought the 11 Chicago-area L. Fish stores for $6 million. That deal did not include the Indianapolis location, which continued to operate under the Fish family’s ownership, according to a Chicago Tribune story from June 17, 1993.

 

According to government records, L. Fish had 16 employees when it received a pandemic-related Paycheck Protection Program loan of $174,115 in May 2020.