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Sakowitz was a men's clothing store which grew into a small chain of family-owned high-end department stores based in Houston, Texas.It operated from 1902 until 1990. Sakowitz was responsible for launching many of the now-famous European fashion designers in America - among them Andre' Courreges, Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche, Zandra Rhoades, Givenchy, and Erminegildo
Sakowitz previously held a number of positions with the Department of Defense and U.S. Army, the last four as an SES member. 2008–2010, (SES) Director and Chief Executive Officer of Defense Commissary Agency [1] [2] 2006–2008, (SES) Executive Director, United States Army Installation Management Command, Arlington, Virginia.
Lynn Wyatt (née Sakowitz; born July 16, 1935) [1] is a Houston socialite, philanthropist and third-generation Texan. Her grandfather and great-uncle started the Sakowitz Department Store chain. Her grandfather and great-uncle started the Sakowitz Department Store chain.
Sakowicz was born in Vilna in 1894, the son of Elias and Sofia Sakowicz, then in the Russian Partition of Poland. [1] He studied law in Moscow.After his studies he returned to Vilna, where he began his journalistic career; Poland regained independence around that time in the aftermath of World War I.
Brothers Simon and Tobias Sakowitz, who left Russia as young children, opened a clothing store in Houston in 1915 that eventually became Sakowitz's, one of the finest department stores in the city until it declared bankruptcy during the economic downtown of the 1980s and sold most of the business to an Australian company. The Sakowitz stores ...
A 2007 Texas Monthly magazine article called Wyatt the real "J. R. Ewing" of the Oil Business and described Oscar and his fourth [8] wife Lynn Sakowitz, a fixture of Houston social, fashion together as the beauty and the beast. [9] Known as a shrewd businessman, Wyatt was both beloved and hated, litigious and charitable.
Salkowitz at the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con.. Robert Louis Salkowitz (born April 28, 1967, Philadelphia, PA) is an author, educator and consultant whose work focuses on the social and business impact of technology innovation.
Camelview Plaza, Scottsdale, Arizona, including Sakowitz, Bullock’s, an 11-story Arizona Bank Tower, and Camelview Cinema, 1974. Now merged into Scottsdale Fashion Square . Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital Extended Care Facility, Chicago, Illinois, 1975