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Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
The first Mel's Drive-In was founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.It later expanded to several other locations. After the last of the original restaurants closed in the 1970s, Weiss's son Steven Weiss and partner Donald Wagstaff opened the first of a new generation of Mel's Drive-In restaurants in 1985. [1]
In 1963, a 7-Eleven store near an Austin, Texas, university began to stay open all night for student shoppers. It was such a success that other stores in the chain adopted the 24/7 hours, and ...
By the 1950s, Toddle House had more than 200 locations in almost 90 cities. In 1962, Toddle House was purchased by Dobbs Houses, a competitor that also operated Steak 'n Egg Kitchen, [3] and the franchise was allowed to decline. [4] In 1980, Carson Pirie Scott borrowed $108 million to buy Dobbs Houses.
1. Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrels are open regular hours on Thanksgiving. You can eat a turkey dinner in the restaurant, or order a Thanksgiving family-size meal to go if you don’t feel like ...
The college was founded in 1950 by the Sisters of Mercy. [15] In 2011, Mercy College absorbed the buildings and facilities of Our Lady of Victory Academy.In 2016, Mercy College opened a new $32 million, 100,000-square-foot residence hall, a 5,000-square-foot fitness center and a Starbucks Cafe and convenience store on its Dobbs Ferry campus. [16]
The station depicted in a 1906 postcard. Dobbs Ferry station opened on September 29, 1849 with its origins as part of the Hudson River Railroad. [1] The current station house, which was built in 1889 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, became a Penn Central station upon the merger between NYC and Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 like many NYCRR stations in Westchester County, until ...
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