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The store thrived until the late 1960s, when white flight led to widespread disinvestment in Roseland and surrounding neighborhoods. Much of the People’s Store’s traditional consumer base moved to the south and southwest suburbs during this time. In 1975, Gatelys opened a second, smaller store in southwest suburban Tinley Park, Illinois ...
There were 11 to 12 American stores in the 1960s before business declined, a victim of the growth of malls over standalone stores. Eventually, the 10 suburban branches closed. In 1961, Arnold, Constable sold its main store to the New York Public Library for its Mid-Manhattan Branch , but leased the first few floors back from the library to ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
On June 27, 1960, more than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the department store to protest the racist exclusion of Black people from dining at Rich's, the News Sentinel reported that day.
The stores boasted "over 100 departments" selling everything from clothing, hardware, toys to even guns. Rochester bargain hunters loved this store in the 1960s. But its success was fleeting
By then, Cobb Center looked very dated and small with its dark wood interior and very 1960s retro exterior. Once again, in 1987, the mall was renovated for its 25th anniversary. This time, it was redesigned to the popular bright pastel look of the 1980s, skylights were improved and the mall was renamed "Four Seasons Mall" to attempt to remove ...
G. Fox & Co. was a large department store that originated in Hartford, Connecticut. It was the largest privately held department store in the nation when it was sold in 1965 to the May Department Stores Company. In 1993, May Department stores phased out the G. Fox & Co. brand, converting them into the Boston-based department store Filene's.
Turn Style was a chain of discount department stores and was a division of Chicago-based Jewel, the parent company of the Jewel Food Stores supermarket chain.Some mid-western Turn Styles had an Osco Pharmacy, at the time very uncommon for a discount store in the 1960s and 1970s. [2]