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Broadway Plaza is an outdoor shopping mall located in downtown Walnut Creek.The shopping center opened on October 11, 1951 and is owned and operated by Macerich.The mall is anchored by Nordstrom and Macy's, and features nearly 80 stores including flagship H&M and ZARA stores, a standalone Apple store with an adjoining outdoor plaza, an Industrious co-working space, a Life Time Fitness sports ...
A Deseret Industries store in Federal Way, Washington. This location was relocated to a new building in Puyallup. DI was established in August 1938 by church president Heber J. Grant toward the end of the Great Depression. [3] The goal was to collect donated goods, employ people to collect and repair items, and sell items through thrift stores.
The first store was founded in 1938 as Longs Self-Service Drugs, by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), when they opened their first store on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California. The first Longs in Hawaii opened on March 29, 1954, in Honolulu.
Out of the Closet is a nonprofit chain of thrift stores whose revenues provide medical care for patients with HIV/AIDS. The chain is owned and operated by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a Los Angeles–based charity that provides medical, preventive, and educational resources for patients. AHF is the largest nonprofit HIV/AIDS healthcare ...
The company was founded by Bill Ellison in 1954 at a former movie theater in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. [8] [9] By 1970, the chain had six thrift stores in the states of California, Oregon, and Washington under various names, including Value Village and Thrift Village.
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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 ...
Shelves in a thrift store in Indianapolis, Indiana A charity shop in Sheringham, UK. A charity shop (British English), thrift shop or thrift store (American English and Canadian English, also includes for-profit stores such as Savers) or opportunity shop or op-shop (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.