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F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
A $500,000 (~$7.05 million in 2023) expansion of the store occurred in 1924, adding 70,000 square feet (6,500 m 2) to the original location. In 1932, the store expanded northward with the purchase of the Hudson's store at 410 Main Street. From the 1940s until its closing, the store was known locally for its elaborate Victorian Christmas windows.
"Hills is, the low cost living, anti-inflation department store." "We're a different kind of department store- you oughta be shopping Hills! (Check us out!)" "We're a different kind of discount store, and the proof is in the price!" "Hills Department Stores - Famous for Low Prices Everyday" "Hills has the hits - LPs or Cassettes" (TV commercial ...
The Kress building in Houston, Texas, 2020 Kress store building in Lubbock, Texas showing the characteristic design A Kress building in Tampa, Florida. Kress opened his first stationery and notions store in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee.
1800s-The store was founded in 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, as Wechsler & Abraham by Joseph Wechsler and Abraham Abraham.In 1893, the Straus family (including Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus), who acquired a general partnership with Macy's department stores in 1888, bought out Joseph Wechsler's interest in Wechsler & Abraham and changed the store's name to Abraham & Straus.
The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [1] It was founded in Leadville , Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. [ 2 ]
Gimbels Building in Milwaukee. The company was founded by a young Bavarian Jewish immigrant, Adam Gimbel, who opened a general store in Vincennes, Indiana. [2] [3] After a brief stay in Danville, Illinois, Gimbel relocated in 1887 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [2] which was then a boomtown heavily populated by German immigrants.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 724 square miles (1,880 km 2), of which 718 square miles (1,860 km 2) is land and 6.5 square miles (17 km 2) (0.9%) is water. [6] It is the second-largest county by area in Kentucky and the largest in Western Kentucky.