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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 ...
Broad Street, just one block from the railroad, quickly became its economic center. The oldest building is the O'Dwyer and Ahern Building at 110 East Broad Street, a three-story brick-faced building constructed c. 1886. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]
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.
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before ... Macy's moved into its flagship Herald Square location in 1902, which became the largest single store in America. ... New Yorkers ...
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.75 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
The new store, Athens Outlet Store, focused on the sale of closeout, irregular, and previous-year merchandise. The business grew, operating 20 stores by 1970. [1] In 1978, the name was changed to "Goody's". "Goody" was the college nickname of M. D. Goodfriend's son Bob, who had joined the family business in 1972.
For 61-year-old Melvin “Mel” Gray, a Kansas City veteran who served in the Army, Air Force and National Guard, finding family members he never knew about made his life “more whole.”
The Texarkana location of Dillard's marked the second location in its entire chain [4] for the Little Rock, Arkansas-based company, which now operates 282 stores across 29 states. [5] Warmack & Company retained ownership of the mall until it was sold in 2004. [6] In 2016, Dillard's fully remodeled and expanded its store by 42,000 square feet.