<P> The majority owner , John Morris , began his career in sporting goods with a fishing section in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father , located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson , Missouri . That small fishing department sold homemade bait and worms , proving popular enough that Bass Pro Shops was incorporated in 1971 . These homemade baits were so popular that many people wanted the opportunity to buy these when they had returned home . Thus began the Bass Pro Shops catalog , first mailed in 1974 . Soon , it became the world 's largest mail order sporting goods store . </P>
<P> The majority owner , John Morris , began his career in sporting goods with a fishing section in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father , located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson , Missouri . That small fishing department sold homemade bait and worms , proving popular enough that Bass Pro Shops was incorporated in 1971 . These homemade baits were so popular that many people wanted the opportunity to buy these when they had returned home . Thus began the Bass Pro Shops catalog , first mailed in 1974 . Soon , it became the world 's largest mail order sporting goods store . </P>
where was the first bass pro shop built
where was the first bass pro shop built
in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father , located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson , Missouri
in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father , located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson , Missouri