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The original store opened in Bartow, Florida in 1896 [1] as a carriage-trade shop. Over its nearly 110-year history, Burdines grew into a popular chain of department stores, known as 'The Florida Store,' decorated with palm trees in the center of the store, painted in pink and blue, and other subtropical colors and motifs.
Roddy Bell Burdine [1] (October 14, 1886 – February 15, 1936) was an American businessman who owned the Burdines department store chain from 1911 to 1936. A leading citizen of Miami in the early 20th century, Burdine was the son of William Burdine, who founded Burdines as a dry goods store in 1898.
Maas Brothers was a leading Tampa, Florida, department store founded by Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886 [1] that grew from a small 23-by-90-foot (7.0 by 27.4 m) store to a chain of 39 stores throughout the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Burdines department store on South Miami Avenue at First Street in 1933. Miami Herald File/Florida State Archives ... A new South Florida Jefferson store in 1962. Miami Herald File. Syms. Syms at ...
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 department stores went out and other specialty stores left. By 2000, the Omni mall closed, although the hotel and the memories remain. Dadeland shopping center in October 1962.
The Gainesville Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in Gainesville, Florida. It was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of NW 13th Street and NW 23rd Avenue and operated from Fall 1967 to 1993. [1] [2] The Gainesville Mall closed permanently in 1993 after years of decline and was initially replaced with a Kmart.
The 38-yr-old Boynton Beach Mall, which is up for sale, opened in 1985 with former retail giants like Burdines. We take a look at the shopping mall through the years.