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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.
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 ...
Kaufmann's was founded in Pittsburgh in 1871 by brothers Morris, Jacob, and Isaac Kaufmann as a small South Side men's store. [4] [5] In 1877, the brothers moved downtown to a location that became known as The Big Store. [6] In the first half of the 20th century, the store was owned by Edgar J. Kaufmann. [7]
Gimbel was born July 26, 1898, in Atlantic City, the son of Ellis A. Gimbel and Minnie (née Mastbaum). His father was chairman of the board at the Gimbel Brothers Company which his grandfather, Adam Gimbel, founded in Vincennes, Indiana in 1842. His mother was the sister of theatre owner Jules Mastbaum who was married to Etta Wedell Mastbaum.
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.
In 1923, Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks, [16] Bernard Gimbel, operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary.On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened in the Saks Fifth Avenue Building at 611 Fifth Avenue, with a full-block avenue frontage south of St. Patrick's Cathedral, facing what would become Rockefeller Center. [17]
The Philadelphia Gimbel Brothers Department Store put on a parade including only 50 people and 15 cars, and ended with Santa on his sleigh to mark the coming Christmas season. 14. The First Feast