Larmon Furniture: Celebrating 80 Years of Growth

Larmon Furniture has stood on the same street corner at 7th Avenue and 14th Street in Ybor City where it was founded eight decades ago. Started in 1931 as Friday and Larmon Furniture by Rubel Larmon and his business partner, David Friday, the company is Tampa’s oldest family furniture business.

“They had the showroom but they would also take furniture around town on a buggy to people’s homes,” says Jimmy Kalamaras, president of Larmon, who has owned the store with his wife, Elizabeth, Rubel’s granddaughter, since 1992.