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The first G.E.M. (Government Employees Mutual) store was opened in June 1956 in Denver by Ronald D. Evans, the former general manager of the G.E.T. (Government Employees Together) store in San Francisco. [2] The second GEM store was opened in Kansas City in July 1957 [3] followed by the third GEM store that was opened in Honolulu a few days ...
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 ...
Originally a discount department store open to government employees paying a $2 per family membership fee, FedMart earned four times more than its investors had projected in its first year. Over the next 20 years, FedMart grew to include 45 stores, mostly in California, and the Southwest [1] in a chain that generated over $300 million in annual ...
The department store grew during and after the Civil War and would eventually become a chain by the end of the nineteenth century. Macy's moved into its flagship Herald Square location in 1902 ...
Gemco was an American chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro-based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons. Gemco operated from 1959 until closing in late 1986. A number of the west coast stores leases were sold to Target which fueled
The first Kessler's department store opened in Macon in 1914. In 1932, the family moved to Atlanta, where Hyman and Walter H. Kessler opened a store in downtown the following year. [1] The Kessler family closed all stores in 1998. [2] The downtown Atlanta store has since been converted into condominiums. [3]
The former Florida attorney general is a longtime ally of the president-elect after first endorsing him in 2016.
Pamela Franklin made her film debut at 11 years old in "The Innocents" (1961), launching an acting career that would extend nearly two decades before she ultimately stepped away from the spotlight.