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The Centre and Montello Streets Historic District encompasses an area of well-preserved commercial buildings in Brockton, Massachusetts. The district extends west along Centre Street from the junction of Centre and Montello Streets in downtown Brockton, and includes a few buildings on Montello south of that intersection. The district was selected for historic status because it was thought to ...
Balfour is an American producer of high school, college, military, and championship rings, as well as yearbooks, caps and gowns, and graduation announcements. Founded in 1913 as the L. G. Balfour Company, Balfour is an operating unit of Commemorative Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of American Achievement Corporation.
On August 6, 2018, it was announced Fallas would also be closing as part of a plan to close 74 stores nationwide after parent company National Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [11] The former Macy's was partially replaced by Burlington and Planet Fitness in September 2018 and October 2018 respectively with PCX Apparel taking another ...
The Howard Block is a historic commercial building at 93–97 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.Built in 1876, it forms (along with the adjacent Lyman Block), an important nexus of commercial development of the post-Civil War era in Brockton.
The Franklin Block is a historic commercial building in Brockton, Massachusetts.The three-story brick Romanesque Revival-style building was built in 1888.Its construction marked the high point in the economic recovery of the city's Campello neighborhood, which had been devastated by fire in 1853, and is one of two 19th-century buildings in the area. [2]
EbLens entered the urban lifestyle in the 1990s as it saw the potential to increase sales even further by doing this, and in effort to compete with other clothing chains such as Old Navy, Gap, Aeropostale, PacSun, and Banana Republic, and opened its first store specifically focused on urban fashion in Brockton, Massachusetts in 2004, near ...
The company promoted the use of Grade "A" dairy milk in its ice cream, while comparable producers at the time still used Grade "B" milk. [2] It competed in the New England market alongside Howard Johnson's into the 1930s; some Dutchland stores were converted to Howard Johnson's units before being acquired as a whole company in 1940.
The shoes were made in the Campello section of Brockton, Massachusetts, [10] as well as Middleboro, Massachusetts. [11] In 1919, Keith gave a talk at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City about Walk-Over's export business. [12] The company filed an unfair competition suit against a store selling shoes as Walk-Overs that were not from the ...