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John Wanamaker or Wanamaker's (Philadelphia and New York City flagship stores), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC–based Woodward & Lothrop owned by Alfred Taubman; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) The Jones Store (Macy's in 2006) Jordan Marsh (Macy's ...
This retail mercantile business was founded in 1905, as Julius Garfinkle & Co. by Julius Garfinckel (1872–1936), originally employing 10 clerks. The store opened on October 2, 1905, at 1226 F St. NW in Washington, D.C. [3] By August 1924, the spelling of the store name was modified to Julius Garfinckel & Co. [4]
Based in Richmond, Virginia, the chain at its peak operated dozens of stores in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and one store in Memphis, Tennessee. Thalhimer's traditions were most notable during the holiday season with visits from the sticker-distributing Snow Bear and, in later years, the arrival of Lego Land at the downtown ...
On February 1, 2006, Federated dissolved the former May Company divisions, and the existing Hecht's stores were divided between Macy's East and Macy's South, with stores in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Northern Virginia going to the former and stores in North Carolina, Tennessee, and the rest of ...
Clothing, footwear, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. Miller & Rhoads was a Virginia -based department store chain. Throughout its 105-year lifespan, the store played an active role in the Richmond, Virginia , community, along with its friendly cross-street rival Thalhimers .
As the casual clothing side of the business increased it evolved into a new store called Britches Great Outdoors, eventually growing to over 60 stores by 1988 with 35 in the Washington DC area and $100million in sales.
Peebles was founded in 1891 by William Smith Peebles, who opened his first store in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Peebles mainly concentrated on small towns that didn’t have department stores, thus avoiding bigger cities and higher rents. In 1981 the company acquired The Collins Company, a line of mid-priced, comparable stores.
Suburban locations in Northern Virginia operated at Landmark Mall in Alexandria (opened 1966) [14] and Seven Corners Shopping Center in Falls Church (opened October 1956, closed 1976). [15] Outlets in suburban Maryland operated at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda , Prince George's Plaza in Hyattsville (opened 1959, closed ca. 1982), [ 16 ] and ...