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Skaggs
Skaggs may refer to: *Skaggs Companies, predecessors to many famous United States retailing chains, including Safeway, Albertsons, Osco, and Longs Drug Stores *Skaggs family, a family prominent in merchandising *Skaggs School of Pharmacy, the pharmacy school of the University of California, San Diego People *Charlie Skaggs (born 1965), American professional wrestler best known as 2 Cold Scorpio * Dave Skaggs (born 1951), former Major League Baseball catcher *David Skaggs (born 1943), Democratic Congressman from the state of Colorado *David Curtis Skaggs, Jr. (born 1937), American historian * Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs (1920-2005) American author and composer * Henry Skaggs, American hunter, explorer and pioneer * Jim Skaggs (born 1940), former professional American football offensive lineman * Jimmie F. Skaggs (1944–2004), American actor * Joey Skaggs (born 1945), American prankster who organizes media pranks * Justin Skaggs (1979–2007), American football player *Luther Skaggs, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Skaggs
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991July 1, 2019) was an American left-handed professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels from 2012 until his death in 2019. A native of Woodland Hills, California, and a graduate of Santa Monica High School, Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He was traded to the Diamondbacks the following year as part of an exchange for pitcher Dan Haren and rose through Arizona's farm system. After two consecutive appearances at the All-Star Futures Game in 2011 and 2012, Skaggs made his major league debut on August22, 2012, against the Miami Marlins. He remained with the Diamondbacks through the end of the season, but was optioned to the minor leagues in 2013. In December 2013 the Diamondbacks traded Skaggs back to the Angels, and he served as the fifth member of the team's starting pitching rotation until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skaggs Family
The Skaggs Family, starting from a small frontier town in southern Idaho, came to have an important impact on merchandising across much of the United States. During most of the 20th century, the Skaggs name was prominent on hundreds of stores throughout the West and Midwest. The origins of a wide range of these grocery and drug store enterprises can be traced to this one Skaggs family. The father in the family was a Baptist Minister (Christianity), minister and had moved west for a better climate. He had a large family; to supplement his income he opened a grocery store. He and six of his sons, with varying degrees of collaboration, introduced in the early 20th century two important changes in merchandising: the low-margin, cash-and-carry approach to business, and rapidly growing a multitude of common outlets, now called chain stores. Their entrepreneurial interests became a major retailing force resulting in large, retail chains that carried not only the Skaggs name itself, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Skaggs
Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster, and banjo. Skaggs was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2018. On January 13, 2021, it was announced Skaggs had been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Donald Trump, alongside fellow country musician Toby Keith. Biography Early career Skaggs was born in Cordell, Kentucky. He started playing music at age 5 after he was given a mandolin by his father, Hobert Skaggs. At age 6, he played mandolin and sang on stage with Bill Monroe. At age 7, he appeared on television's Martha White country music variety show, playing with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He also wanted to audition for the Grand Ole Opry at that time, but was told he was too young. In his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases.Korean Dog Soup " '''' Artistic career In his youth, Skaggs studied at the and received a BFA from the |
Skaggs Companies
Skaggs Companies was the predecessor to many famous United States retailing chain store, chains, including Safeway Inc., Safeway, New Albertsons, Albertsons, Osco Drug, and Longs Drugs. The company owned several drugstore chains, but all of them were sold. Skaggs Cos. became American Stores in 1979. History Safeway The first company was based in American Falls, Idaho, where in 1915 Samuel M. Skaggs founded a grocery store and operated it as Skaggs' Cash Store, which was sold to his son Marion Barton Skaggs. It took the name "Cash Store" as it operated on only a cash basis. With the assistance of his five brothers: Pepper Oscar Skaggs, Aron Sylvester Skaggs, Loronzo L. Skaggs, Samuel Olnie Skaggs, Levi Justin Skaggs, Marion Skaggs grew the chain, operated as two separate businesses, Skaggs Cash Stores (Pepper Oscar Skaggs) and Skaggs United Stores (M. B. Skaggs), to 191 stores by 1920. In 1921, Marion Barton Skaggs moved to Portland, Oregon, purchased a home in the Alameda, Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Skaggs
David Evans Skaggs (born February 22, 1943) is an American lawyer, politician and educator from Colorado. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999. Early life and education Skaggs was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Wesleyan University in 1964 and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale University in 1967. Career Early career Skaggs spent three years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, including service in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division and assignments on Okinawa and at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC. Upon discharge from active duty in 1971, he remained in the Marine Reserves until 1978, attaining the rank of Major. Skaggs practiced law briefly in New York City and, after military service, in Boulder, Colorado. Skaggs first became involved in poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Skaggs
Henry Skaggs (January 8, 1724 – December 4, 1810. Occasional alternative spellings: "Skeggs" and "Scaggs") was an American longhunter, explorer and pioneer, active primarily on the frontiers of Tennessee and Kentucky during the latter half of the 18th century. His career as an explorer began as early as 1761 as one of the so-called long hunters— men who undertook lengthy hunting expeditions into the Trans-Allegheny wilderness. In subsequent years, working as a land agent with Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone, he explored large parts of Middle Tennessee and Central Kentucky. Skaggs led a pursuit and failed attempt to apprehend America's first known serial killers, the Harpe Brothers in 1799. Early life Henry Skaggs was born on January 8, 1724, in the Province of Maryland, British Royal Colony, British North America, British Empire to James Skaggs, a Scots-Irish immigrant, and his wife Rachel. James Skaggs and his sons, were noted hunters and fur traders.Lyman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Skaggs
Justin Earl Skaggs (April 22, 1979 – June 15, 2007) was an American football player. He played college football at Evangel University. After going undrafted in the 2001 NFL Draft, Skaggs went on to have a seven-year professional football career in the National Football League (NFL), NFL Europe, and Arena Football League (1987–2008), Arena Football League (AFL). In his career, Skaggs played for the Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. He also played for the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europa, NFL Europe and the Orlando Predators, and Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League (1987–2008), Arena Football League (AFL). In 2007, he died at the age of 28 from stage III oligodendroglioma, an inoperable brain cancer. Early life and college career Born in Wentzville, Missouri, Skaggs attended St. Clair High School (Missouri), St. Clair High School in Saint Clair, Missouri. At Evangel University, an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Barton Skaggs
Marion Barton Skaggs (April 5, 1888 – May 8, 1976) was an American businessman and leading member of the Skaggs Family of retailers who expanded the predecessor of Safeway into a major supermarket chain. Career Skaggs was an advocate of the cash-and-carry system for grocery stores. His father, S.M. Skaggs, was a Baptist minister, and he was convinced that the prevailing system of credit increased prices since grocers and storekeepers had to wait to get paid and made the customers overly dependent on those grocers and storekeepers. His father established a store in American Falls, Idaho. He sold groceries for cash and passed the savings from not offering credit to customers in the form of lower prices. On August 15, 1915, Skaggs bought the store from his father for $1,088 (), and he continued the cash-and-carry business strategy helping him amass wealth and prominence in the grocery retailing industry.Ashcraft, Betty (April 24, 1963).Burley Store Springboard for Huge Safeway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs
Hazel Ann Ghazarian Skaggs (August 26, 1920 - March 4, 2005) was an American author, composer, and music educator who specialized in piano pedagogy. Skaggs was born in Boston to Seeran Bardezbanian and Hagop Ghazarian. She married Paul Skaggs. Skaggs earned a pedagogy diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music; a B.A. and M.A. in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University; and an artist diploma from the American College of Musicians. She also studied at the Universities of Colorado, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Her teachers included Dr. Clarence Adler, Howard Goding, Ernst Levy, and Gladys Ondricek. During her years at New England Conservatory, Skaggs wrote short stories for the Boston Post. She contributed to ''The Art of Teaching Piano'' (edited by Denes Agay), and wrote many articles for music journals (see below). Skaggs was a deacon in the Armenian Presbyterian Church and enjoyed folk dancing as a hobby. She belonged to and held office in several professional or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skaggs School Of Pharmacy
The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is a graduate-level pharmacy school at the University of California, San Diego. It offers five educational programs: * Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree awarded in a four-year program *Joint Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry and Pharm.D. degree awarded in a seven-year program in cooperation with UCSD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry *Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences *Post Pharm.D. pharmacy practice and specialty residencies and research fellowships *A continuing education program for practicing pharmacists. Prior to the establishment of the school, San Diego was the largest metropolitan city in the USA without a local pharmacy school. History The Skaggs School was authorized by the Regents of the University of California The Regents of the University of California (also referred to as the Board of Regents to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Skaggs
David Lindsey Skaggs (born June 12, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of four seasons, from until , for the Baltimore Orioles and California Angels. As a member of the Orioles, he was the last Oriole to wear #8 before Cal Ripken Jr. Skaggs was the starting catcher in game 4 of the 1979 World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, a game in which the Orioles won 9-6. The Dave Skaggs family would appear later in the 1980s on an episode of the popular game show Family Feud ''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. It features two families who compete to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The show has had three separate runs, the .... Sources {{DEFAULTSORT:Skaggs, Dave Major League Baseball catchers Baltimore Orioles players California Angels players Aberdeen Pheasants players Stockton Ports players Miami Orioles players Lodi Lions pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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