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Obadiah Truax Barker had owned upholstery and mattress shops in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]In 1880, Barker was visiting Los Angeles on a trip from Colorado Springs to San Jose, California, when he overheard an outraged Otto Müller at a horticultural exhibition complain about the high cost of furnishing his home from the only large furniture store in the city at the time. [1]
Barker's final logo. Barker's Discount Department Stores was a chain of discount department stores founded in May 1957 by Felix Mininberg and Irving Barker. As one of the first hard goods discounters, and with creative promotions, the initial store, in Orange, Connecticut, grew quickly with a wide variety of products for the home arranged in a supermarket style.
Barker Bros. – Los Angeles-based furniture store chain which was at one time the largest furniture store chain on the west coast for nearly a century before it filed for bankruptcy in 1992; Bombay Company – U.S. stores; Castro Convertibles – primarily Northeast and Southeast U.S. Fradkin Brothers Furniture – Baltimore County, Maryland
A&P. Perhaps one of the best-known defunct grocery store chains, A&P, or the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, traces its roots back to 1859, beginning as a mail-order tea business in New York ...
A grocery store chain best known for its little cowboy mascot, Alpha Beta began in 1910 and lasted until about 1995. ... Ultimately, however, it was sold to Hannaford Brothers Company in 2004 ...
The Weatherby-Kayser Shoe Company was a chain of footwear retailers with ... in the new upscale shopping area around J. W. Robinson's and Barker Brothers' new stores, ...
The craft store world got a little smaller in November 2019, when A.C. Moore's parent company announced it would close the chain's 145 stores, mainly found on the East Coast. Major competitor ...
The flagship department stores like Bullock's (1983), Barker Brothers (1984) and Robinson's (1993) had closed and only the Broadway/Macy's at The Bloc, previously named Broadway Plaza remained. However, in 1986, the Seventh Market Place mall, now FIGat7th, opened, bringing a smaller retail cluster back to Seventh such as the 7th Street/Metro ...