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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 ...
Bath, New Hampshire. In business since the early 1790s, this former post office location in the White Mountains stands as the nation's oldest continuously operated general store. It's long been a ...
Although the first Macy's parade was a small affair held in Massachusetts on July 4, 1854, New Yorkers gathered street-side for a much larger celebration on Thanksgiving Day 70 years later, in ...
1648-1651, 1662 (as retail) Shirokiya: Honolulu, Hawaii: Lacquer, Retail [12] [13] Founded in Tokyo, moved to the U.S. in 1958. Defunct in 2021. 1667 Seaside Inn: Kennebunkport, Maine: Hotel [8] [14] [15] 1670 Hudson's Bay Company: New York City: Retail [16] Founded in England by Royal Charter, headquartered today in Toronto and New York City ...
The store is a regular stop on the presidential campaign trail; [4] candidate Barack Obama visited the store on May 28, 2007, with his daughters. [6] Due to a combination of a poor economy generally, and the loss of local customers to major chain stores, the store suffered financially in the early 2000s. [4]
A general store in Rhode Island that state officials once proclaimed the oldest in the country is closing its doors after 224 years. Gray's store in the Adamsville village in Little Compton opened ...
[3] [4] Similar to chain stores like Ames and Bradlee's, the chain offered discounted brand-name merchandise. In 1994, the company had sales of $240 million (~$448 million in 2023). [ 5 ] By Jerry Rich's death in 1995, the chain had 28 locations across New England.
Gray's General Store is a general store located at 4 Main Street in Adamsville, Rhode Island. Founded in 1788, it operated for almost 225 years and was reputed to be the oldest continually operating general store in the United States. [1] The store featured an old-fashioned marble soda fountain, cigar and tobacco cases, and Rhode Island ...