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- Previously posted on December 11, 2010
Department Stores
Sullum’s – Honesdale, PA
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The Sullum’s building, a 135 year fixture of downtown, is getting a serious makeover.
The building has already been stripped bare on the inside. The new owners, Stephen Smith and Michael Morris of Smith and Morris Holdings, Inc., have pulled out everything, including about a half ton of old knob and tube wiring, all the building’s plumbing, 20,000 pounds of old, moldy clothing, five pickup trucks full of useful clothes donated to area churches, and 90,000 pounds of debris.
The project, which will cost roughly $500,000 before it’s finished, brings new meaning to the word renovation, Morris says.
“We’re not bringing this building into the twentieth or twenty-first century. We’re shooting straight for the twenty-second century.” he said as he led an improptu tour through the gutted building.
By the time it’s all said and done, Morris says the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified building will have three vertical wind turbines on the roof — the first of their kind in the nation — that will provide 75 kilowatts of power to the high tech, highly efficient operations inside.
“Right now,” Morris explained, “Wayne County is largely blue collar. We want to bring some white collar, high technology jobs into the area, and we want to start training people to do those jobs right here.” – Josh Wengler, Wayne Independent.com
Saks Fifth Avenue – Midtown, NYC
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Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew Saks in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. Andrew died in 1912 and in 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. – Wikipedia
We always shopped at Gimbels.
Russeks – Fulton Street Mall – Downtown Brooklyn
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Russeks started out specializing in furs, but the Brooklyn branch and its Fifth Avenue counterpart soon became known for their women’s collections. These ads appeared in The New York Times pre-World War II. – Ephemeral NY
Hotel Jermyn – Cleland-Simpson Company [1878-1906] – Scranton, PA
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The Cleland Simpson building is the former site of the Globe Department Store which closed in 1994.
Singh’s Department Store – Jersey City, NJ
790 Newark Avenue
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Mandir is a place where Hindus go to worship God in the form of various deities. Murtis help them to do this. The Murtis are marble images ceremonially infused with the divine presence of god. They are daily worshipped with five artis and other ceremonies. Mandir – Wikipedia
