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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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
L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres.Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fashions, the Tea Room, holiday events and displays, and the basement budget store.
The expanded 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m 2) department store boasted three restaurants, a bakery and a 1,600-seat public auditorium. In the 1960s and '70s the chain was more well known as Titche's. The store took on the Joske's name in 1979. In 1985 Allied Stores consolidated Joske's three Texas divisions, and the top three floors of the ...