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Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers was founded as Arrow Lumber Company by Joseph Rashkow in 1947 on the south side of Chicago. His son, Ronald Rashkow, bought out the single store operation in 1967 from his father. He converted the company to Handy Andy in 1971 with its first expansion unit. [1]
In 1887 they established what became “a mammoth” department with some 17,790 square feet, four stories tall. “It was considered at opening “the largest general store in Michigan outside Detroit.” Penzlauer Bros. had large lumber-related business. In 1906 when they sold out and opened a store in Los Angeles.
At its peak, the store had locations in both New York City and Los Angeles. In addition, the firm invented the big box concept where all non-clothing lines were leased by other retailers. [citation needed] Rogers Peet – New York City based men's clothing retailer established in late 1874. Among the chain's innovations: Rogers Peet showed ...
LL Flooring, a specialty flooring company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is holding closing sales at 94 retail locations across the U.S. after it filed Sunday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in ...
In 1952, Wickes opened a retail lumber store in Bay City, Michigan, the Bay City Cash Way Company. The outlet saw success selling lumber to small independent lumber companies, additional outlets were opened, and the business was renamed Wickes Lumber Co. in 1962. The boiler business was sold in 1959. [1]
Camden, Texas, owned by the W.T. Carter & Brother Lumber Company and its successors Sugar Land, Texas , once owned and run by the Imperial Sugar Company, transformed into an upscale suburb of Houston
The Frederic M. Sibley Lumber Company Office Building is an office building located at 6460 Kercheval Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1989 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] The building is known for being the beginning of a major trailer manufacturing company.
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