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1910 F.A.O Schwarz Advertisement. FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862 in Baltimore under the name "Toy Bazaar" by German immigrant Frederick August Otto Schwarz.. In 1870, Schwarz opened a New York City location known as the "Schwarz Toy Bazaar" at 765 Broadway, which moved to 42 E. 14th Street in Union Square in 1880 and operated at that location until April 28, 1897, when it took over two vacant ...
Schwarz was born in New York City, the great-grandson of German-American Frederick August Otto Schwarz, the founder of the Fifth Avenue toy store, F.A.O. Schwarz. His family sold the majority interest in the toy store in 1963. [2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960. In 1960, he ...
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Herman’s World of Sporting Goods was a sporting goods retailer in the United States. [1] Founded in 1916 by Herman and Eddie Steinlauf as a music store in Nassau Street, Lower Manhattan, the company expanded into sporting goods and grew to multiple locations in the New York metropolitan area, including East 42nd Street, East 34th Street, and Paramus, New Jersey.
Together they had four sons and three daughters: Anna Schwarz (1863–1933), Ida Schwarz (1864-1942), Henry Schwarz, George Frederick Schwarz (1868–1931), Emilie Schwarz (1870–1958), H. Marshall Schwarz, [9] and Herbert Ferlando Schwarz (1883–1960). [10] [11] Frederick August Otto Schwarz died at his home in Manhattan at 20 East 61st Street.
J.W. Mays, Inc. is a real estate firm based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. From 1927 until 1988 the company ran a chain of discount department stores in the area surrounding New York City referred to as Mays, with stores located in three of New York City's five boroughs, Long Island, and Putnam County. At its height as a retailer, the ...
Zany Brainy was an American retail store chain subsidiary of FAO Schwarz.Its merchandise consisted of educational toys and multi-media products aimed at children ages 4–13, such as games and puzzles, infant development toys, books, audiocassettes, CDs, videos, arts and crafts, building toys and trains, computer software, electronic learning aids and musical instruments, science toys, plush ...
S. Klein On The Square, or simply S. Klein, was a popular-priced department store chain based in New York City. The flagship stores (a main building and a women's fashion building) were located along Union Square East in Manhattan; this location would combine with the 1920s idiomatic catch phrase "on the square" (meaning "honest and straight-up ...