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Download or read book Chain Stores in America 1859 1962 written by Godfrey Montague Lebhar and published by New York, Chain Store Publishing Corporation [1963]. This book was released on 1963 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of chain stores including A & P, Kresge Co., W.T. Grant Co., Rexall Drug Co., J.C. Penney Co., Neisner Brothers, J.J. Newberry Co., L.K. Liggett Co., Safeway Stores, Sears Roebuck & Co., Schiff Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., United Cigar Stores, Walgreen Co., Montgomery Ward & Co., Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., F.W. Woolworth Co., Endicott-Johnson, G.R. Kinney & Co., Jewel Tea Co., Kroger Co., R.H. Macy & Co., Melville Shoe Corp., G.C. Murphy Co., McCrory Stores Corp., Peoples Drug Stors, Riker-Hegeman-Jaynes Co., and others.
Download or read book Signs Streets and Storefronts written by Martin Treu and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.
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Download or read book Beyond the Broker State written by Jonathan J. Bean and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on anti-chain-store legislation beginning in the 1930s and on the establishment of federal small business agencies in the 1940s and 1950s, Jonathan Bean analyzes public policy toward small business. Beyond the Broker State challenges the long-accepted definition of politics as the interplay of organized interest groups, mediated by a broker state.
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