Store Stories - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) William. William T. Dillard started his flagship department store in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1938.
• A2) William. William Filene's Sons Co. opened in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. The famous Automatic Bargain Basement debuted in 1909.
• A3) James. James Cash Penney and William Henry McManus, renamed the Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1912.
• A4) Sebastian. Sebastian S. Kresge followed up his S.S. Kresge dime store chain with his new business in Garden City, Michigan in 1962.
• A5) Max. Max Kohl had started Kohl's Food Stores in 1946 then branched out to Kohl's Department Store in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1962.
• A6) Alex. Alex Loeb opened his first clothing store in Meridian, Mississippi in 1887.
• A7) Lucius. Lucius S. Lowe started Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina in 1921. The name was changed to Lowe's in 1946.
• A8) Rowland. Rowland Hussey Macy, a Quaker, founded R. H. Macy & Company on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue in New York City in 1858.
• A9) John. John W. Nordstrom, a Swedish immigrant born as Johan Nordström, founded the company as a shoe store in Seattle, Washington in 1901.
• A10) Andrew. Andrew Saks opened his first store in 1867 and the store that would become Saks & Co. in 1898. The Saks Fifth Avenue name was given to the eponymous New York City location in 1924 after a merger between Saks & Co. and Gimbel Brothers, Inc.
• A11) Richard. Richard Warren Sears started by selling watches, first on foot, then via mail order before teaming up with Alvah Roebuck to create Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Chicago, Illinois in 1886.
• A12) Charles. Charles R. Walgreen, Sr. started the company as a drug store in Chicago, Illinois in 1901.