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Highpoint Trading was the parent company for Famous Army Stores and Limocoat, formed as a vehicle for a management buy-out in 1996. The management buy-out was undertaken. The chain then rapidly grew from 100 shops to 200, with a turnover of £50 million and profits of £2.2 million in 1998. [ 3 ]
The Van Nuys Army & Navy Surplus Store, a former surplus store in Los Angeles, California, United States. A surplus store or disposals store is a business that sells items and goods that are used, purchased but unused, or past their use by date, and are no longer needed due to excess supply, decommissioning, or obsolescence.
In 1919, [3] J.S. "Jake" Oshman, an immigrant from Latvia, [4] opened a store, Oshman's Dry Goods, in Richmond, Texas. In 1931 he moved to Houston by buying the stock of a bankrupt army-surplus store known as Crawford-Austin and liquidated its inventory. He discovered in the process that sporting goods, especially fishing and hunting supplies ...
Cave then built a tavern (in a style area locals call an icehouse) on the site of the town's former general store; after investing nearly half a million dollars, [7] in 2007, he put it up for sale on eBay [6] with a reserve price of $2.5 million. [5] In 2009, the town was carved up and again for sale, this time with an asking price of $883,000. [8]
Jerry Rich, a Russian immigrant living in Salem, Massachusetts, established Jerry's Army-Navy Surplus in 1929. [1] [2] Rich's was founded in 1961 by Rich, his sons Bennett and Howard and his son-in-law Joel Saxe. [3] [4] Similar to chain stores like Ames and Bradlee's, the chain offered discounted brand
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The May 3, 1968, crash of Braniff Flight 352 south of Fort Worth was the deadliest airline disaster in Texas history at the time, killing all 85 on board. But the tragedy has largely been forgotten.
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