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Hills Department Store Sign outside former Hermitage, Tennessee location. Hills filed for bankruptcy protection in February 1991, and the number of stores declined, from 214 to about 150. [ 6 ] Hills' financial woes dated back to its 1985 leveraged buyout from the Shoe Corporation of America which saddled it with debt.
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 ...
In October 1961 Hills operated 23 stores with plans to open 7 more and expand an 8th within the next twelve months. Each planned store was to be 22,000 square feet (2,000 m 2) except for one. The exception was a store in the Walt Whitman Shopping Center in Huntington, New York, which measured 29,000 square feet. [4]
Department stores have struggled mightily over the past several years, so it wasn't a surprise when Bon-Ton Stores decided to pull the plug and liquidate in 2018. The chain's stores spanned 23 ...
Check out your favorite stores from the '90s that are closed today. From The Limited to Wet Seal, these stores were staples at every mall in the 1990s. ... The best part about a trip to the mall ...
In September 2023, the store announced that it would shutter stores in New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, citing crime and safety threats in those areas. All four cities have ...
A 1984 expansion added Hills Department Store. The Sample closed in 1991, while AM&A's sold to The Bon-Ton in 1995. Hills became Ames in 1999; the same year, Montgomery Ward closed and became Rosa's Furniture. Due to the closing of Montgomery Ward, the mall started to decline. Ames closed in 2002, followed by many other mall stores.
Here's a nostalgic look back at what earned these iconic department stores their place in history and what's happened to them since. Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. ...