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Breuners Home Furnishings was a chain of furniture stores in Southwestern United States for 148 years before declaring bankruptcy in 2004. Founded in California during the California gold rush in the mid-19th century, its stores served California and Nevada before expanding to the east coast in the late 20th century. [ 1 ]
Navy Exchange is a retail store chain owned and operated by the United States Navy under the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM), part of the Naval Supply Systems Command. The Navy Exchange offers goods and services to active military , retirees, and certain civilians on Navy installations in the United States , overseas Navy bases, and ...
Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the naval fleet of the United States , before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 .
CA-32 Minor damage, repaired at Pearl Harbor and Mare Island Moored at Berth B-16, Navy Yard Pearl Harbor undergoing engine repairs San Francisco: CA-38 Undamaged Under overhaul at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard berth B-17 Raleigh: CL-7 Damaged by torpedo, repaired at Pearl Harbor and Mare Island Moored at berth F-12, forward of Utah, aft of Detroit
The Naval Station had existed in Pearl Harbor since 1898, but in 1908 the United States Congress allocated $3 million to build the shipyard, then called Navy Yard Pearl Harbor. [3] The shipyard grew quickly, and work began on the first drydock, which collapsed before opening in 1913. After rebuilding, Dry Dock #1 was opened August 21, 1919. [4]
The original downtown store was moved in 2000 to West Morena Boulevard. [4] Between 2009 and 2013 four more locations were added, which opened up the Los Angeles market. [5] By 2015 Jerome's had a total of 11 stores and a turnover of over $147 million, and had attained a top-fifty furniture retail ranking. [6]
The island was originally called Isla Raza de Buena Gente [2] and later Rattlesnake Island. [3] It was renamed Terminal Island in 1891. [2]In 1909, the newly reincorporated Southern California Edison Company decided to build a new steam station to provide reserve capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system and to enable Edison to shut down some of its small, obsolete steam plants.
The first store to open at the mall was a Bullock's department store, in September 1971. [2] The Broadway followed in October, [3] and Sears in November; after the rest of the mall opened in 1971, J. C. Penney was added as a fourth anchor in 1972. [4] An expansion was announced in 1985, comprising J. W. Robinson's and May Company California. [5]