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On March 31, 1923, the Hamburgers sold their store to the May family of St. Louis for $8.5 million (~$118 million in 2023). [30] [31] Thomas and Wilbur May, sons of the founder of the May Company, were sent to manage the former Hamburger store. One of the first things that they did was to expand the store again by building adjacent additions on ...
In 1877, the May Department Stores Company was founded in Leadville during the Colorado silver rush. In 1889, the headquarters moved to Denver. In 1899, May acquired the E. R. Hull & Dutton Co. of Cleveland, renaming it the May Company, Cleveland, later named the May Company Ohio. In 1905, the headquarters moved to St. Louis. [3]
View of the May Co. bldg. from the center courtyard of Mission Valley center in 1965. The May Company Building is one of the anchor tenants of the Westfield Mission Valley shopping center in San Diego, and is an example of modernist architecture. The building opened as a May Company store on February 20, 1961; the first location of May Co. in ...
The May Company Building on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, a.k.a. Hamburgers/May Company Department Store [1] and the May Department Store Building, later known as the California Broadway Trade Center, was the flagship store of the May Company California department store chain.
May Company was the first local department store to issue its own personal charge card, announcing it on July 16, 1966 in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article, breaking away from being part of the Department Stores Charge Plate (a metal card that was notched for each store and used at all participating members which included William Taylor Son & Co ...
May D&F's final logo. May-Daniels & Fisher (commonly known, and doing business as "May-D&F," in later years without the hyphen) was a Denver, Colorado department store created in 1957 when the original May Company operations in Colorado, founded by David May in 1877 in Leadville (and relocated to Denver in 1888), were merged with the newly acquired The Daniels & Fisher Co. store founded in ...
G. Fox & Co. was a large department store that originated in Hartford, Connecticut. It was the largest privately held department store in the nation when it was sold in 1965 to the May Department Stores Company. In 1993, May Department stores phased out the G. Fox & Co. brand, converting them into the Boston-based department store Filene's.
May 19: Operation Yankee Team [1] USAF reconnaissance: Laos: May 24: Unnamed [6] ARVN operation: Can Giao, Gia Định province: May 29: Operation Dan Chi 132 [6] ARVN operation: Chuong Thien: May 30: Operation Chinh Nghia [6] ARVN operation: 14 km southeast of Biên Hòa, Biên Hòa province: May 31: Operation Quyet Thang 303 [6] ARVN operation