Webb's City
Webb's City was a one-stop department store that was located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Founded in 1926, it claimed to be "the World's Most Unusual Drug Store;" founder James Earl "Doc" Webb has been described as "the P. T. Barnum of specialty store retailing". Sideshows included animal tricks, acrobats, and talking mermaids. At its peak, Webb's City had 77 departments, 1,700 employees, and covered about ten city blocks.Robbins, P.D., (2003). Stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap: James doc webb and webb's city, st. petersburg, florida. ''Florida State University Libraries.'' Retrieved from https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:176309/datastream/PDF/view It was considered a forerunner to the shopping center. The jingle in its radio ad was: "There'll be no more hoppin' around the town a-shoppin', Webb's City is your one-stop shopping store." As shopping centers became popular, business dwindled at Webb's City, which closed in 1979. Doc Webb's philosophy regarding to W ...
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