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Hastings Entertainment was an American retail chain that sold books, movies, music, and video games and functioned as a video rental shop.As of 2016 it had 126 superstores, which were mainly located in the South Central United States, Rocky Mountain States, and in parts of the Great Plains and Midwestern states.
Related archival materials: Hastings Family Papers, MSS 752; H.G. Hastings Company Photographs, VIS 170; and Hastings Family Photographs, VIS 174 In 1889 in Interlachen, Florida, Harry George Hastings (1869-1962) established H.G. Hastings and Company, a mail-order business specializing in garden and field seeds as well as nursery stock.
The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. This was a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate the various professions associated with England 's publishing industry, including printers, bookbinders, booksellers, and publishers.
Hastings town centre and the Memorial from an old postcard. Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour, and there have been attempts to create a sheltered harbour. Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the sea destroyed the foundations in terrible storms. The fishing boats ...
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Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp. was an American music publisher founded by Charles Henry Hansen (1913–1995) in 1952 and incorporated in New York.Its music covered a broad spectrum of genres that included classical (opera, orchestra, band, choral, chamber, and solo), jazz, folk, rock, country, popular, educational — and music text books.
Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is a chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company's original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale in each location are purchased from local residents.
Book-and-record sets are popular as teaching tools and aids to reading, and as a simple form of multimedia entertainment. Cartoon characters are common subjects (or stars) of the stories, as are comic book superheroes and other media franchises, characters and personalities. Occasionally popular children's or family movies are adapted for book ...