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In 1978, the store chain was operated by Elroy Distributors, and presented Harry Chapin with a $1,000 check for the World Hunger Organization. [2] By 1980, Record World had a total of 32 stores opened, and had expanded the company's warehouse in Freeport, New York, from 1,500 square feet to 20,000 feet. [3]
Times Square Stores (also called TSS and TSS Seedman's) was an American department store chain based in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1989. By the late 1980s the chain operated 12 stores in New York and 6 in Puerto Rico , and an off-price ladies' apparel chain, Finders Keepers , which had 15 locations. [ 1 ]
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.
King Karol was a New York City, New York-based record store chain founded by Ben Karol [1] and Phil King in 1952. [2]Lasting through at least 1987, [3] and defunct for some time by 1993, [4] King Karol was one of New York's "largest [and most] comprehensive" music stores.
The company also operated a store at Times Square. That outlet, which opened in 1940, was dubbed "the cathedral of clothing". [8] The store closed in 1977. [9] Starting in 1980, the building was a dance club called Bond International Casino, notable for hosting a concert by The Clash in 1981.
It was the beginning of the end for Lord & Taylor when the nation's oldest department store sold its historic New York City flagship store for $850 million in 2017. ... record stores that have ...
Manhattan Shirt Company was one of the initial tenants in the Emmet Building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Robert Lewis Leeds Jr. was the CEO of Manhattan Industries from 1965 [3] to 1974, when he left to work with Victor Kiam at Remington. Larry Leeds, the president and chairman of the company in 1977, backed the creation of Perry Ellis ...
In 1971, 20-year-old newlyweds Joseph and Rachelle Friedman started J&R as a small consumer electronics store selling stereos and television sets in a 500 square foot store front at 23 Park Row [11] [12] The couple saw it as a side project, selling TVs and stereos out of a 500 square foot store, as Rachelle studied at Polytechnic University (New York) in Brooklyn.