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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.
As cross-town rival Gimbels was being dismantled in 1986, Boston Store acquired three Gimbel's branches at Southgate Mall, Milwaukee, East Towne Mall, Madison and Mayfair Mall, Wauwatosa. In 1989, P.A. Bergner bought Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott for over $450 million. Carson's itself had just bought Minneapolis-based Donaldson's in
Schuster's. Exterior of Schuster's Department Store on King Drive in Milwaukee when it was temporarily unclad in 2015. Exterior of Schuster's Department Store, showing decorative brickwork. Schuster's, officially Ed. Schuster & Co., was a department store chain, founded in 1883, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it is now defunct. [1][2]
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.
The Bon-Ton Stores chain doubled in size in November 2005 with the $1.1 billion (~$1.65 billion in 2023) purchase of the 142 stores of Saks' Northern Department Store Group, headquartered in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The corporate headquarters remained in York, Pennsylvania, but the merchandising headquarters was relocated to Milwaukee.
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.
In 1972, he established a Gimbels store for $30 million on the Upper East Side thinking that he could capture the neighborhood's wealthy residents; the store was a failure. [9] In July 1973, Gimbels was purchased for $205 million by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, the country's third‐largest tobacco company. [4] He retired in 1975. [4]
Mayfair Mall is a shopping mall located on Mayfair Road (Highway 100) between North Avenue and Center Street in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States. It serves the Greater Milwaukee area, also Wisconsin's premier shopping Center and Largest Mall in Wisconsin with 161 stores. Mayfair Shopping Center was constructed from 1956 and completed in 1959 ...