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97001539 [1] Added to NRHP. December 24, 1997. H. P. Wasson and Company, aka Wasson's, was an Indianapolis, Indiana, based department store chain founded by Hiram P. Wasson. Its flagship store, the H. P. Wasson & Company Building, was built in 1937 and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Entrance to the Half Price Books Northwest Highway, the corporate headquarters, on E. Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas Half Price Books in Berkeley, California. Founders Ken Gjemre (1921-2002) and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a former laundromat in Dallas, Texas, filling the shelves with 2,000 books out of their personal libraries. [5]
Venture Stores, Inc. Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares. Venture Stores, Inc. was a chain of retail stores aimed at the discount department-store market. John Geisse, formerly of Target Stores, and May Department Stores' executive vice president, Dave Babcock, founded the chain in 1968.
The variety stores, restaurants and frame and craft stores were sold off in 1985 to executive Jay Danner in an effort to save the 3-D discount chain. The new company was called Danner Brothers Co. [2] [3] 3-D stood for "Danner's Discount Department Store". In 1986, 3D Discount had 35 locations throughout Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. [4] [5]
Guitar Center was founded in Hollywood in 1959 by Wayne Mitchell as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use. In 1964, after a supplier required him to carry Vox guitar amplifiers, to continue receiving organs, Mitchell added the amplifiers to his inventory and renamed the store The Vox Center, leveraging the Beatles association with the Vox brand.
Raymond Zimmerman. Products. Jewelry, gifts, home decor products, sporting goods, electronics, toys. Service Merchandise was a retail chain of catalog showrooms carrying jewelry, toys, sporting goods and electronics. The company, which first began in 1934 as a five-and-dime store, was in existence for 68 years before ceasing operations in 2002.
William H. Block Co. The William H. Block Company was a department store chain in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana. It was founded in 1874 by Herman Wilhelm Bloch, an immigrant from Austria-Hungary who had Americanized his name to William H. Block. The main store was located at 9 East Washington Street in Indianapolis in 1896.
Alysa Guffey, Indianapolis Star. July 19, 2024 at 5:21 AM. A $300 million development project will house an upscale Shinola hotel and 4,000-seat live entertainment venue at the long-blighted ...