Ad
related to: gimbel family of gimbels dept store model airplanes pictures youtubetemu.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
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]
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 ...
Jules Mastbaum (uncle) Etta Wedell Mastbaum (aunt) Richard Gimbel (July 26, 1898 – May 27, 1970) was an American businessman, World War I and World War II veteran, and book collector who served as president of curator of aeronautical literature at the Yale University Library. [1]
Benedict Gimbel Jr. (1899 – February 6, 1971) was an American businessman, department store executive, and founder of one of the first radio stations in Philadelphia. Biography [ edit ] Benedict Gimbel Jr. was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, the son of Birdie (née Loeb) and Benedict Gimbel Sr. [1] [2] His grandfather was Adam Gimbel ...
Ad
related to: gimbel family of gimbels dept store model airplanes pictures youtubetemu.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month