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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.
Biography. Gimbel was born to Jewish parents, Rachel (née Feustman) and Isaac Gimbel, [2] [3] son of Adam Gimbel, founder of the Gimbels chain of department stores. [2] [4] In 1907, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. [2] He started as a shipping clerk for his family's company and worked his way up to vice president in 1909.
Born in New York City, he was the son of Alva (née Bernheimer) and Bernard Feustman Gimbel and heir to the Gimbels department store chain. [1] [2] [3] His great grandfather was Adam Gimbel. [4] He had two sisters, Hope Gimbel Solinger and Caral Gimbel Lebworth; [2] [3] and one brother, David Alva Gimbel. [5]
Smith’s original vision for Gimbels department store, upper left, with the store that ultimately came to be in Elf. (courtesy Rusty Smith; Everett Collection) The North Pole was a different story.
Family. Adam Gimbel (great-grandfather) Hank Greenberg (brother-in-law) Edward Lasker (brother-in-law) David Solinger (brother-in-law) Lynn Stern (niece) Peter Mendelsund (grandson) Lisa Mendelsund (granddaughter) Bruce Alva Gimbel (July 28, 1913 – October 7, 1980) was an American businessman and president of the Gimbels department store.
The Gimbels store was the largest dry goods vendor in the city, with its own elevator and 40–75 salespeople. [2] In 1894, the Gimbel Brothers Company, as it was then known, expanded to Philadelphia, buying a dry goods store, [2] the Granville Haines store (originally built and operated by Cooper and Conard). Gimbel believed that the ...
Benedict Gimbel Jr. was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, the son of Birdie (née Loeb) and Benedict Gimbel Sr. His grandfather was Adam Gimbel of the Gimbel Brothers retailing family. His father worked as an executive at the family business and killed himself in Hoboken in 1907 despondent after being charged with a serious crime. [3]
Sophie was hired as a stylist for Saks by Adam Long Gimbel, grandson of Adam Gimbel, the founder of department store chain Gimbels. In 1929, she was asked to take over the Salon Moderne of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store. In her role as lead fashion designer, she often traveled to Paris to purchase clothes from designers.