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Pleasant Family Shopping: A Tale of Two Guys
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Tuesday, October 9, 2007. A Tale of Two Guys. Sadly, by the end of 1964, both Hubschman brothers were no longer part of the “Two Guys” organization. Sidney resigned from the company in November, 1963, and Herbert, company chairman at the time, passed away in September of the following year. The photos, showing a typical Two Guys store exterior and several department views are from 1962. For a short time my Dad used to work at ...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: The Golden Age of Gas Stations
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Saturday, March 19, 2011. The Golden Age of Gas Stations. The camera cuts to a gleaming corner Texaco station. A car pulls up to the pumps, and immediately a group of four nattily-uniformed attendants descend on it like a SWAT team – checking the oil, washing the windows, checking the tires, pumping the gas. A perfect evocation of the Golden Age of Service Stations. Remember when the price of petroleum was $3.01? Of crude oil&...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: Requiem for Randhurst
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Saturday, October 18, 2008. On September 30, northwest suburban Chicago’s historic Randhurst Mall, a fondly remembered part of my childhood, closed its doors for the last time. Soon the bulldozers will roll, tearing down the famous triangular center core of the mall, leaving only the (still open and operating) anchor stores standing. The mall is scheduled to reopen as Randhurst Village. It’s an amazing story that I hope ...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: G.C. Murphy - Dime Store Pioneer
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Wednesday, October 7, 2009. GC Murphy - Dime Store Pioneer. Tragically, Murphy would not live to see his company’s greatest successes. In 1909, he passed away suddenly at the age of 41. With no succession plan in place and a failed public offering of the stock, the company floundered for the next couple of years. The 1940’s saw several leadership transitions within the company. Seph Mack passed away in 1940, and the ...The lat...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: E.J. Korvette - The Dawn of Discounting
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Monday, November 5, 2007. EJ Korvette - The Dawn of Discounting. In the history of American retailing, The E.J. Korvette Story is a fairly brief chapter. This brevity does not do justice to the tremendous, arguably unparalleled influence the company and its visionary founder, Eugene Ferkauf, wielded during its halcyon years – the mid-fifties through the early nineteen-sixties. November 5, 2007 at 6:32 PM. The painting is a ver...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: Twilight of the Grand Union
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A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past. Friday, August 8, 2008. Twilight of the Grand Union. The two photographs above show The Grand Union Company’s office tower and flagship store on the. That appeared on this site late last year. The Elmwood Park Grand Union, along with its famous tower, was torn down later that year. A Walgreens now sits on the site, and the rest of the shopping center now has uniform storefronts. John’s reflections appear below. Imgurl=http:/ w...
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