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In 1931, the 50-store Economical Drug chain, also based in Detroit, consolidated with Cunningham, which at the time had thirteen stores. [1] [2] Economical Drug owner Nate Shapero also assumed control of the Cunningham chain. Cunningham announced a merger with Marshall Drug Co. of Cleveland, Ohio in 1940. [3] [4] Between 1958 and 1959, the ...
Webb's City was a one-stop department store that was located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Founded in 1926, it claimed to be "the World's Most Unusual Drug Store;" founder James Earl "Doc" Webb has been described as "the P. T. Barnum of specialty store retailing". [1] Sideshows included animal tricks, acrobats, and talking mermaids.
Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He eventually subleased the G.E.M. drug department in several Toronto area stores. Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart. [1] [failed ...
Well-dressed children watch toys in the shop window of a department store displaying Christmas decorations on December 11, 1946. AFP - Getty Images F.W. Woolworth Company: 1947
Thom McAn – shoe retailer founded in 1922; had over 1,400 stores at its peak in the 1960s. In 1996, the parent company decided to close all remaining stores, but Thom McAn footwear is available in Kmart stores. [69] Today's Man – a men's suiting store that began in the 1970s and expanded rapidly in the 1980s and 90s. Overexpansion brought ...
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an organization of drug users and distributors that operated from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s in Orange County, California. [3] They were dubbed the Hippie Mafia by the police. [4] They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a "psychedelic revolution" in the United States. [5] [6]
Faith-based and 12-step programs, despite the fact that they had little experience with drug addicts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” The number of drug treatment facilities boomed with federal funding and the steady expansion of private insurance coverage for addiction, going from a mere handful in the 1950s to thousands a few decades later.
Read's Drug Store was founded by William Read. He sold it to the Nattans family in 1899. [ 1 ] The downtown store was constructed in 1934 by Smith & May, Baltimore architects also responsible for the Bank of America building at 10 Light St. [ 2 ] In 1929, one company slogan was "Run Right to Reads."