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The Boston Store
Boston Store may refer to: Chains named Boston Store * Boston Stores (California), also known as The Boston Store, with stores near Los Angeles, California, and in Arizona * Boston Store (Wisconsin) Individual stores named Boston Store * Boston Store (Chandler, Oklahoma) * Boston Store (Erie, Pennsylvania) Stores originally known as The Boston Store * J. L. Brandeis and Sons * Edgar Department Stores, originally called "The Boston Store", Brockton, Massachusetts * Fowler, Dick & Walker, Wilkes-Barre, PA and Binghamton, NY, which became part of Boscov's * J. W. Robinson's, originally named "Boston Dry Goods Store", Los Angeles, California *Sibley's Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York-based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, also ... * Wilson's (department store) {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Stores (California)
Boston Stores, originally and later still often called The Boston Store was a chain of department stores based in Inglewood, California, just southwest of Central Los Angeles, operating from 1934 through 1996. The chain grew to 20 stores by 1990, 14 in California and 6 in Arizona, with around 1,000 employees. By 1990 the headquarters had been relocated to Carson, around 13 miles south of Inglewood. There have been dozens of stores called "Boston Store" in the U.S., including J. W. Robinson's which went by that name in the late 19th and early 20th century in its downtown Los Angeles locations, and two unrelated "Boston Stores"- on operating in 1925 at 320 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles in the old Blackstone's Department Store building and another in 1939 with branches at 331 S. Broadway in the old Jacoby Bros. store and at 4755 Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles. Neither of them are related to the Inglewood-based Boston Stores. Ira Kaufman started the chain with a singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Store (Wisconsin)
The Boston Store Inc. is an online retailer and former department store chain owned by The Bon-Ton stores. It was founded in 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. History 1920s and 1930s Throughout the 1920s, and 1930s the Boston Store was run by Philip Irving Stone. His nephew, Irving Stone, worked as a manager and, beginning in 1927, dated Broadway ingenue and later MGM movie star Jeanette MacDonald for a time. In December 1933, 600 of the store's 1000 employees walked out in a famous White Collar union strike. Federated and Maus Freres S.A. Julian Simon's control of Boston Store was sold to Federated Department Stores in 1948 and under Federated, branch stores were opened in several Wisconsin cities including Oshkosh, Sheboygan and Manitowoc. Ownership later passed to the Bergner's chain of Peoria, Illinois in 1985 (itself owned by Switzerland-based Maus Frères S.A., a retail conglomerate controlled by the Maus and Nordmann Families); soon afterward Bergner's relocated its hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Store (Chandler, Oklahoma)
The Boston Store is a historic two-story building in Chandler, Oklahoma. It was built in 1900 with rusticated sandstone. With Over the years, it housed a jewelry store, an insurance brokerage firm, a tailor's, a billiards area, a drugstore, and later a restaurant. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... since April 5, 1984. References National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Oklahoma Commercial buildings completed in 1900 1900 establishments in Oklahoma Territory Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Chandler, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Store (Erie, Pennsylvania)
The Boston Store is a former department store located on State Street in downtown Erie in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The store itself was founded in 1885, with the building being constructed in 1929. At its peak, two other Boston Stores were opened, in addition to the downtown store. The Boston Store was closed in 1979. The building remained abandoned until 1988, when it was renovated into a combination apartment and commercial building, and was renamed Boston Store Place. The Boston Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Design The Boston Store is located between 7th and 8th Streets on State Street in downtown Erie. The six-story tall, buff brick building is predominantly cubical with a frontage of along State Street. The facade is divided into eight bays by brick piers.; the bays are further subdivided by secondary piers. The top of the building is capped with parapet, with piers extending above it and topped with stone coping. Vertical pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Department Stores
Edgar Department Stores was the name of a U.S. based department store that operated in New England. Originally called "The Boston Store," it was founded in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1890. After a second devastating fire in less than 20 years, James Edgar, an immigrant from Edinburgh, Scotland, bought out his partner and in a purpose-built, fire-proof building, re-opened the business as Edgar's in Brockton, Massachusetts. Every December starting in 1890, James Edgar dressed up as Santa Claus to entertain the children of shoppers, thus becoming the first department store Santa. Trains brought families from Boston and Providence to Edgar's to see Santa. In the early 1960s Edgar's was bought by Almy, Bigelow and Washburn, Inc. The corporation ran department stores under various names in eastern Mass. By the mid 70s, some of the stores were renamed "Almy's." The store sold clothing, home goods, jewelry, cosmetics and some toys. Edgar's Portrait Salon was located on its balcony. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fowler, Dick & Walker
Fowler, Dick & Walker, later known as Fowler's, was a chain of department stores, also called ''The Boston Store.'' They started business as a very small dry goods store in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1879, occupying space in another establishment at 120 South Main Street. The founders were George Fowler, Alexander Dick and Gilbert Walker. They had previous employment experience in the dry goods business in Connecticut. The first store opened for business on April 5, 1879. By December, they were advertising in other nearby towns, and by February had 18 employees. In 1882, they opened a Binghamton, New York branch. In 1889, there was also an Evansville, Indiana branch of the business, well-known in the region by 1892. By 1904, they were advertising their new store location in Binghamton, New York on Court Street and Water Street. The "new" store was the flagship for over 75 years, with another and is still in use as a Boscov's department store . The Indiana subsidiary was diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibley's
Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York-based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, also housed its headquarters and featured an elegant executive dining room on the top floor. History The Department Store Years Rufus Sibley, Alexander Lindsay, and John Curr were employees at the Hogg, Brown & Taylor dry-goods store in Boston. Wishing to go into business for themselves, they investigated potential sites and settled on the growing city of Rochester. Their first storefront, often called "the Boston store" by locals, opened in 1868. When the company opened a new 12-story, flagship store in the Granite Building, it was among the five largest department stores in the country at the time. In 1905, after the disastrous 1904 "Sibley fire" gutted the Granite Building and much of Rochester's dry goods district, Sibley's moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
