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The store was founded as Blum Brothers Dry Goods in the late 19th century, The company and the Blum name was acquired by Maurice Spector in 1920. [1] Spector's gift for merchandising expanded the store's clientele, and the firm soon opened branch locations in Bala Cynwyd and Exton, Pennsylvania, and Moorestown, New Jersey.
The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporium. The retailer started adding branch stores starting in the 1930s and, by their zenith in the 1980s, enjoyed annual sales of over a billion dollars [ 1 ] By the 1990s, Strawbridge's became part of the May Department Stores conglomerate until May's acquisition ...
Live Breathe Futbol is a soccer (football) clothing brand started in 2010 by Ebun Olaloye & Domenick Cucinotta [1] while students at Temple University in Philadelphia. [2] [3]The company began selling soccer-inspired T-shirts online, [4] but in the fall of 2012 released the LBF is Forever collection.
Charming operated the 77-store chain until 2002, and then announced it would close 80% of the locations, and convert the remaining 20% into its Catherines brand. Modern Woman — Modern Woman was a 125-store chain of plus-size women's clothing stores, operating primarily in strip shopping centers in the US. The chain was acquired by Charming in ...
The N. Snellenburg Company Department Store Warehouse, 1825–1851 N. 10th St., in Philadelphia, was built in 1914 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 1965, the men's store annex at 34 South 11th Street, became the first location of Community College of Philadelphia. It still stands and was used by the Family Court ...
In 1891, Rachel P. Lit (1858-1919, later surnamed Weddel, still later Arnold) opened a women's clothing shop on the corner of Market and N. 8th Streets. With the administration and innovative advertising techniques of her brothers, Colonel Samuel David Lit (1859-1929) and Jacob David Lit (1872-1950), their small store soon became one of the ...
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Allen's or Allen's department store, a.k.a. George Allen, Inc., was a large store in Center City, Philadelphia for women's clothing and accessories. It opened at 326 High Street in 1837 and moved to 1214 Chestnut Street in 1896.