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Herbert R. Gibson and his wife, Belva, opened Gibson Products Co., a wholesale novelty company, in 1936 in Abilene, Texas. [1] By the late 1950s, Gibson had decided to refocus on discounting, and he opened the first Gibson's Discount Center in Abilene in 1960. [2] The company grew mostly by franchising the store concept to others.
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]
Howard Brothers Discount Stores (informally known as Howard Brothers and Howard's) was a chain of discount stores in the Southeastern United States. The chain was founded in 1959 by Alton Hardy Howard and W. L. "Jack" Howard , a five-term mayor of Monroe, Louisiana .
While Concentra is currently the product of a number of mergers, the original company was OccuSystems Inc., founded in Amarillo, Texas by Dr. Richard Rhem in 1979. [2] After completing his residency and moving to Buffalo, Wyoming to practice family medicine for three years, he opened a practice in the underserved Amarillo, which he thought presented an opportunity. [2]
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Texas Chiropractic College (TCC) is a private chiropractic college in Pasadena, Texas. Founded in 1908, it is the fourth-oldest chiropractic college in the United States. [ 1 ] TCC was originally located in San Antonio, Texas before moving in 1965 to Pasadena due to increased demands for a larger campus.