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Remnants of this outmoded way of shopping can still be found today at dozens of locations across the nation, though most surviving general stores from the 19th or early 20th century have had to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The New York store also housed a large organ; it was sold at auction in 1955 for $1,200 (~$10,655 in 2023) after the New York store closed the year prior. [11] News of the Titanic's sinking was transmitted to Wanamaker's wireless station in New York City, and given to anxious crowds waiting outside—yet another first for an American retail ...
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 ...
The Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the department store in the 19th century reformed modern retail. Early department stores functioned as cultural centres where consumers could congregate and seek entertainment. Mail order catalogues also became popular. In 1954, the first modern shopping mall, Northland Mall, opened in the United ...
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 ...