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Polk Brothers was a large home appliance and electronics retailer in Chicago, Illinois that had 17 stores in the region at its peak in the ... In the 1950s and 1960s, ...
Polk Brothers became wildly popular as the first appliance retailer to sell at a discount to the suggested manufacturers retail price [4] and in the 1950s and 1960s, Polk Brothers became the largest retailer of brand-name appliances in the country with 15 stores and over $100 million in annual sales. Polk Brothers was also the first retailer of ...
Neisner's or Neisner Brothers was a chain of variety stores in North America, opened their first variety store in Rochester, New York, in 1911. [5] Ohrbach's, liquidated in 1987 and acquired by Howland-Steinbach; Ovington's New York, liquidated in bankruptcy 1950; assets acquired by American Limoges Co. Pharmhouse
Polk Bros Park is a 13-acre (5.3 ha) park at Chicago's Navy Pier. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The park features the Peoples Energy Welcome Pavilion, Polk Bros Fountain, and the Polk Bros Performance Lawns, a pair of lawns with stages called City Stage and Lake Stage.
Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.
Patti Page was the artist with second-longest most cumulative run at number one (22 weeks) between January 1950 until August 1958. Perry Como remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 20 weeks between January 1950 until August 1958.
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Lucy Ann Polk (May 16, 1927 – October 10, 2011) was an American jazz singer who performed with Les Brown's orchestra in the 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She also sang and recorded with Bob Crosby , [ 3 ] Kay Kyser , Tommy Dorsey , [ 4 ] Jerry Fielding , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and Dave Pell .