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John Wanamaker or Wanamaker's (Philadelphia and New York City flagship stores), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC–based Woodward & Lothrop owned by Alfred Taubman; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) The Jones Store (Macy's in 2006) Jordan Marsh (Macy's ...
Raleigh Haberdasher, more commonly called Raleigh's, was a high end, local men's and women's apparel store based in Washington, D.C. History The first store opened on ...
Raleigh's – also known as Raleigh Haberdasher; a men's and women's clothing store in Washington, D.C., 1911–1992; Robert Hall – clothing store that existed from 1938 to 1977. At its peak, the store had locations in both New York City and Los Angeles.
As the casual clothing side of the business increased it evolved into a new store called Britches Great Outdoors, eventually growing to over 60 stores by 1988 with 35 in the Washington DC area and $100million in sales.
In late 1983, Dash's brought suit against the nation's largest manufacturer of men's clothing, Hartmarx Corp., of trying to hurt its business by refusing to sell the retailer some of its best products and by charging one of its chief competitors lower prices. [4] The suit was voluntarily dropped in 1984. [5] The law firm was later sanctioned. [6]
Because of that fight, the chain was slow to expand to other malls opening the Washington, D.C. suburbs. [6] This was followed by the store at Rockville Mall on February 14, 1972, and a 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2 ) store at Springfield Mall (later Korvettes, then SpringFest Food Court/AMC) in March 1973.
The Montgomery Ward (165,000 sq ft.) store opened on April 20, 1967, when former Maryland Gov. J. Millard Tawes cut the ceremonial ribbon. [1] [2] The second anchor of the two anchor mall, Woodward & Lothrop, opened its store in the Spring of 1967. [3]
Erlebacher's was a high-fashion ladies specialty store that operated in Washington, D.C. The location at 1222 F. Street, NW, opened on October 14, 1907, as G. Erlebacher. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Erlbacher were buyers for the Hecht Company in Baltimore before opening the store in Washingt