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1300 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Area served. Delaware Valley. Products. Clothing, footwear, housewares, furniture, toys, jewelry, linens. Wanamaker 's, originally known as John Wanamaker Department Store, was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker in Philadelphia in 1861, it was ...
Kaufmann's. Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores.
The Watt & Shand building was on the southeast corner of Penn Square in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Done in the Beaux Arts style, the building was four stories of buff brick with elaborate terra cotta and marble ornamentation. The oldest section of the building, facing East King Street, dated from 1898 and was designed by C. Emlen Urban.
Hess's. Hess's, originally known as Hess Brothers, was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company was founded a single store in 1897, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its commercial peak in the late 1980s. The chains stores were closed or sold off in a series of deals in the early to mid-1990s.
Gimbels. Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Glosser Brothers, or "Glosser's" for short, branched out in the 1960s with the opening of the suburban Gee Bee discount stores. Later in the 1970s, Gee Bee opened Gee Bee, Jr., a scaled-down concept of its full-sized discount stores, with the inventory concentrated on discount clothing and accessories. Some of the chain's larger locations also ...
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
The store operated successfully for decades, and was the first of the Allentown department stores to open a branch at Whitehall Mall in Whitehall Township, an Allentown suburb, in 1966. In 1970, Donald Vollmer, then president of the store, purchased Bears Department Store in York, Pennsylvania and renamed it Zollinger-Harned, making it the ...