Goldwater's Department Store was a

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chain based in

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History

Michael Goldwater, the grandfather of U.S. Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, established a

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in 1860 in

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, Arizona Territory. In 1872, he moved to Phoenix. Associated Dry Goods Corp. acquired Goldwater's in 1963 and expanded it to nine stores in the following decades, establishing stores in

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and

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markets. In 1986,

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acquired Associated and in 1989 it dissolved the Goldwater's division. Seven of its stores were rebranded as parts of the J. W. Robinson's,

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and

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divisions. At this time, May sold the Tucson stores to Dillard's because of overlap with its recently acquired

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unit. May Department Stores merged its

and J. W. Robinson's divisions in 1993 as

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, reuniting the Phoenix and Las Vegas stores under one nameplate while the May D&F unit in New Mexico became Foley's. Following the Federated Department Stores purchase of May in 2006, several of the remaining former Goldwater's locations became

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, while the former flagship location at

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was demolished to make way for

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, which itself closed in 2016. The Goldwater family reclaimed the store's old

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in 1989 and reincarnated it as a food company called Goldwater's Foods and now headed by Goldwater's granddaughter Carolyn Goldwater Ross.

Locations

Goldwater's locations included * Noble Building, Phoenix (opened 1910) * Cortez & Union Streets, Prescott (opened September 18, 1937) *

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, Phoenix (opened November 8, 1956) *

, Scottsdale (opened October 9, 1961) * Metrocenter Mall, Phoenix (opened October 21, 1973) * Coronado Center, Albuquerque (opened February 16, 1976) * El Con Center, Tucson (opened August 14, 1978) * Fiesta Mall, Mesa (opened August 13, 1979) * Paradise Valley Mall, Phoenix (opened August 11, 1980) *

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, Las Vegas (opened 1981) * Foothills Mall, Tucson (opened 1982)

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