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Sine's 5 & 10 Cent Store/Yelp. Today: Sine's 5 & 10. Quakertown, Pennsylvania Howard Sine opened his five and dime in 1912 and moved the business to its current location in 1926. Today, the fifth ...
J. J. Newberry's was an American five and dime store chain. It was founded in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1911 by John Josiah Newberry (1877–1954). J. J. Newberry learned the variety store business by working in stores for 17 years between 1894 and 1911. There were seven stores in the chain by 1918.
In 1929, a furnace explosion at a McCrory store in Washington, D.C. killed six people and injured 50 more. [4] In 1933, during the Great Depression, McCrory Stores, now with 244 stores, entered bankruptcy protection. [5] The company was dissolved, but was eventually re-established as McCrory Stores and resumed operations. John McCrorey died in ...
The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1879, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York. Though it initially appeared to be successful, the store soon failed. [1] [page needed] When Woolworth searched for a new location, a friend suggested Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Using the sign from the ...
Fred Morgan Kirby (1861-1940) from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was the founder of the F. M. Kirby & Co. 5 & 10-cent Store chain, [1] and a philanthropist. Kirby’s company was a major rival of the much larger F. W. Woolworth & Co. and the two businesses merged in 1912. Fred Kirby became a Vice President of the F. W. Woolworth & Co., which was ...
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.
G.C. Murphy was a chain of five and dime or variety stores in the United States from 1906 to 2002. They also operated Murphy's Mart (full scale discount stores), Bargain World (closeout merchandise), Terry & Ferris and Bruners (junior department stores), and Cobbs (specialty apparel) stores. [1]
Chain discount store 99 Cents Only will close all 371 of its locations, the company said in a surprise announcement Thursday — leaving a number of high-profile vacancies across the United States ...