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C.C. Filson, c.1917. Clinton C. Filson (born 1850), a former Nebraska homesteader and railroad conductor for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, arrived in the Northwest in the early 1890s, initially settling in Kirkland, Washington, where he invested in property near Peter Kirk's proposed iron works and opened a hardware store in a brick building he co-owned with Seattle ...
By 1980, the Frederick & Nelson chain had expanded to 10 stores in two states (Washington and Oregon). The company filed for bankruptcy and went out of business in 1992. Its former Seattle flagship store building is now occupied by the flagship Nordstrom store. [1]
Ernst Home Centers, Inc. was a chain of home improvement retail stores founded in Seattle, Washington, United States. Ernst was started in 1893 by Seattle brothers Charles and Fred Ernst. In 1960, it became a division of Pay 'n Save, one of the largest retail companies in the Northwest.
This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.. As of December 2021, the Seattle metropolitan area is home to ten Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#2), Costco Wholesale (#12), Microsoft (#15), coffee chain Starbucks (#125), Paccar (#159), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#289), Weyerhaeuser (#387 ...
Cooking classes are available in over 80 stores. [1] Sur La Table has a blog, A Sharp Knife & Salt, that focuses on food, chefs, restaurants and products. [2] Many of the company's stores offer culinary classes [3] with plans to include a kitchen in every new store. [4] The company's corporate headquarters is located in Seattle's Georgetown ...
Wigwam Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount department stores that was based in Seattle and operated across five states: Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, California and Arizona. The discount department store was a fairly new concept when Wigwam's first store opened in 1946. Wigwam Stores' goal was to sell a wide array of products at a lower ...
As of 2004, Bon-Macy's consisted of 50 stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. New store signs, reading simply Macy's , were in place by January 2005. [ 4 ] The former flagship store in downtown Seattle retains one small, original example of The Bon Marché signage; this can be seen above the north entrance of the store, at ...
Constantino Oberto founded Oberto Snacks Inc. (formerly known as Oberto Sausage Company) making and selling hand-made Italian sausage in Seattle, Washington, in 1918. Using Italian family recipes, he began making salami, coppacola and other sausages. [4] On Labor Day 1943, Oberto died leaving his company and its two employees to his family.