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The variety stores, restaurants and frame and craft stores were sold off in 1985 to executive Jay Danner in an effort to save the 3-D discount chain. The new company was called Danner Brothers Co. [2] [3] 3-D stood for "Danner's Discount Department Store". In 1986, 3D Discount had 35 locations throughout Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. [4] [5]
On June 26, 1974, a Marsh location in Troy, Ohio, became the first grocery store in the world to use a bar code scanner. The first item scanned was a ten piece pack of gum. [8] One of the first scanners used to scan bar codes at the supermarket can now be found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. [9]
The company was founded by H. J. Contos in 1947 in Anderson, Indiana. [1] In 1960, a second store was opened in Lafayette, Indiana. [1] Contos died in 1961, and the company was taken over by his son, Larry D. Contos. [1] The company was acquired by The Kroger Company in 1999. [1]
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The first store to open at the mall was a Sears department store, which opened on September 29, 1966. [6] The rest of the mall opened for business in 1968, including JCPenney and a Danners dime store [7] Prentice sold the mall in 1977 to Macerich. JCPenney and Sears remain at their original locations and Dillard's anchors the back annex.
The Block's store was located on Market Street across from the Indianapolis Traction Terminal (the largest traction terminal in the United States). From 1900 to the 1930s, the Indiana interurban system brought shoppers by the thousands from smaller central Indiana towns to shop in downtown Indianapolis. The availability of cheap mass transit to ...
Raise a glass to 2025! Another year has come and gone, which means it’s once again time to get cozy on your couch and watch the ball drop (or watch When Harry Met Sally for the hundredth time ...
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of ...