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Handy Dan Home Improvement was an American home improvement store Amnon Barness, an Israeli immigrant. It went out of business in May, 1989. [1] By 1972, the company operated 30 stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma. It made an initial offering in November, which led to Daylin, Inc. owning 81% of Handy Dan. [1]
It has 351 stores in 15 states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, with plans to expand to Pennsylvania. Menards is the third-largest home improvement store in the United States, behind Lowe's and The Home Depot. [1]
Builders Square. Builders Square was a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. [ 1] A subsidiary of Kmart, its format was quite similar to The Home Depot, Menards, and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2 ), [ 2][ 3] and inventories in excess of 35,000 different items. [ 4]
Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers was founded as Arrow Lumber Company by Joseph Rashkow in 1947 on the south side of Chicago. His son, Ronald Rashkow, bought out the single store operation in 1967 from his father. He converted the company to Handy Andy in 1971 with its first expansion unit. [1] The company grew to 72 stores in seven American ...
Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) is a home furnishing store in North America that sells furniture, flooring, appliances and electronics. It is the largest of its kind in North America. NFM was founded in 1937 by Belarus -born Rose Blumkin, who was known as Mrs. B., in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Under the motto "sell cheap and tell the truth ...
Central, Your Partner In Home Improvement was a Canadian home improvement retailer. It operated seven locations in Nova Scotia, Canada. The first store opened in Antigonish in 1976 under the name S&D Smith Central Supplies Limited. Since 1988, Central has opened a number of new stores in the big box format, beginning when the New Glasgow store ...
Orchard Supply Hardware ( OSH) was an American retailer of home improvement and gardening products. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Orchard Supply Hardware had dozens of locations throughout California, with expansions into Oregon and Florida . After starting as a non-profit cooperative in 1931, the company later turned into a for-profit ...
The Union Station, at 801 South 10th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, known also as Union Passenger Terminal, is "one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the Midwest ". [ 1] Designated an Omaha Landmark in 1978, it was listed as "Union Passenger Terminal" on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, [ 2] and was designated a ...