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Allen's or Allen's department store, a.k.a. George Allen, Inc., was a large store in Center City, Philadelphia for women's clothing and accessories. It opened at 326 High Street in 1837 and moved to 1214 Chestnut Street in 1896.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
The mall was expanded substantially in the 1980s, adding a long wing created from the closed R. H. White building which led to a new JCPenney store. In 1992, Sage-Allen closed their store at the mall and was replaced by a Service Merchandise store. In 1999, Service Merchandise closed their store and the long side wing leading to it was emptied out.
Searstown is the name of several shopping centers, derived from the name of the department store chain Sears. It may refer to: The Mall at Whitney Field, formerly Searstown Mall, in Leominster, Massachusetts; Searstown Mall, a defunct shopping mall in Titusville, Florida; Searstown Shopping Center, a strip mall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Allen's department store; B. The Blum Store; L. Lit Brothers; N. N. Snellenburg & Company; S. Strawbridge's; W. Wanamaker's This page was last edited on 23 April ...
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was a conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's Brandiscount ...
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.48 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
Wesley Haynes was born in Leominster in 1892. He attended the schools in that town, later moving to Boston to continue his education there. He worked as a draftsman for Peabody & Stearns, Allen & Collens, and others. In 1918 he returned to Leominster to open his own office, moving it to Fitchburg in 1920.