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Bucholz, Barbara B. and Margaret Cran. "Bookstop, Austin, TX." In: Bucholz, Barbara B. Corporate Bloodlines: The Future of the Family Firm (A Lyle Stuart book). Carol Publishing Group, 1989. ISBN 0818405074, 9780818405075. p. 145-159 - This book has a chapter on Bookstop
First permanent English settlement in North America 1585: Roanoke Colony: North Carolina: United States: Settlers were left on the island on August 17, 1585. [13] 1587-1623 Mantle Site: Ontario Canada Massive late Woodland Huron-Wendat village site, with trade links reaching as far as Newfoundland. 1596 Monterrey: Nuevo León: Mexico 1597 ...
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. [3] [4] A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, [3] and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore.
District of Columbia (3 locations) For Keeps (bookstore) Georgia: Atlanta: Charis Books & More: Georgia: Decatur: Feminist: Quimby's Bookstore Illinois: Chicago: Seminary Co-op Illinois: Chicago: Unabridged Bookstore Illinois: Chicago: LGBT: Women & Children First Illinois: Chicago: LGBT/Feminist: Prairie Lights Iowa: Iowa City: ACME Comics ...
In 1940, the store was one of the first businesses to feature Muzak. It underwent a major renovation the following year. [22] That decade, the company opened stores in Brooklyn and Chicago. [23] William Barnes died in 1945, at the age of 78, and his son John Wilcox Barnes assumed full control. [23]
Lone Star employees tabulated the ballots for the first Harvey Awards, [3] presented at the Chicago Comicon in July 1988. Saunders closed the Irving location in 2008, the South Arlington location in 2011, and the Dallas store in October 2012. In July 2013, Lone Star Comics sold off three of their five remaining stores, in Mesquite, Hurst, and ...
The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]
The Centennial History of Illinois a famous series by leading scholars; the copyright has expired and the books are in the public domain vol. 1. The Illinois Country 1673–1818 by Clarence Walworth Alvord. (1920) online edition; vol. 2. The Frontier State, 1818–1848 by Theodore Calvin Pease. (1919) online edition; vol. 3.