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Katz focused on low-cost branding, and they quickly grew to 65 stores in 5 states. At their peak, they generated over $100 million in annual sales and employed over 3,000 people. Self-service chain stores became more popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so Katz began losing market share.
Disney Store – The Disney Store closed by the end of January 19, 2022 as the retail moves to Target stores. [ 177 ] F.A.O. Schwarz – sold to Toys 'R Us after bankruptcy in 2009; all stores closed except original NYC flagship store, which closed in 2015. [ 178 ]
Two days later, Katz corporate management in Kansas City desegregated its lunch counters in three states. [14] [15] The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in had been suggested by Luper's eight-year-old daughter and occurred a year and a half before the February 1, 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. It was the first sit-in of the civil rights ...
The design for a $3.6 million, bronze monument commemorating the Katz Drug Store sit-in, in the heart of downtown, was announced Wednesday. 'My mother would be joyous,' says Clara Luper's daughter ...
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Both Katz on Main and Wonderland remain under construction. Five Lux Living projects in Kansas City have been approved for incentives since 2021, including a $200 million apartment/hotel at 14th ...
Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.
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