Defunct Store Mugs
Description: S. H. Kress & Co. was a chain of "five and dime" stores, established by Samuel Henry Kress, which operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores with ornamented architecture on "Main Street" in hundreds of cities and towns. The Kress chain was known for the architecture of its buildings.[5] "Samuel H. Kress... envisioned his stores as works of public art that would contribute to the cityscape."[6] A number of former Kress stores are recognized as architectural landmarks and many are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the 1913 building on Canal Street in New Orleans (now the New Orleans Ritz-Carlton) and the 1929 neoclassical store in Asheville, North Carolina.
Description: Thelma Records was a record label in Detroit, Michigan from 1962 until 1966. Recordings included Emanuel Laskey, Eddie Hill, Rose Battiste, Richard Street & the Distants, Alberta Adams, The Fabulous Peps and Martha Star. The label was formed by Hazel Coleman, mother of Berry Gordy's first wife Thelma Coleman.
Description: Caldor was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as the Bloomingdale's of discounting, Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Chester, NY into a regional retailing giant.
Description: Founded in 1885 as an Ohio-based farm store, Clover Farms stores were outfitted with green and gold signs as one of the first examples of chain retail branding. Residents could shop for groceries, coffee and farm-fresh produce.
Vintage Clover Farm Stores Grocery Ohio Pennsylvania Mug
by GOODEYE
$13 $18
Description: Retro 80s inspired TG&Y Family Centers Defunct discount department store logo
TG&Y Family Centers Discount Department Stores Mug
by Untitled Colours
$13 $18
Description: FedMart was a chain of discount department stores started by Sol Price, who later founded Price Club. It was originally a discount department store open to government employees, who paid a membership fee of just $2 per family. FedMart’s first location in San Diego, California was in a converted airport hangar and the store’s first year was highly successful, exceeding all expectations. Over the next 20 years, FedMart grew to include 45 stores in a chain that generated more than $300 million in annual sales and expanded to several states in the Southwest United States with many locations being previous White Front or Two Guys stores.
Description: Phar-Mor was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982. In 1992, when the company had grown to over 300 stores and 25,000 employees, Monus and his CFO Patrick Finn were accused of embezzlement: they had allegedly hidden losses and moved about $10 million from Phar-Mor to the World Basketball League that Monus had founded. Phar-Mor closed for good in 2001.
Description: Spark Records was a record label started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller around 1954 in Los Angeles, California. Artists released on Spark Records included Willy & Ruth, The Sly Fox, Ervin "Big Boy" Groves, and The Robins. Leiber and Stoller eventually decided that while they wanted to write songs and make records, but did not want to deal with the mechanics of publishing records, so they sold the label to Atlantic Records.
Description: Neighborhood Records (Neighborhood Music Pub. Corp.) was a record label founded by Melanie Safka and her husband Peter Schekeryk in 1971. The label's biggest hit was her #1 single "Brand New Key". First distributed by the Famous Music group of record labels (i.e. Dot, Blue Thumb and Paramount), it shifted distribution to Bell/Arista before folding in 1975.
Description: Check out this Dayton's Department Store Minneapolis Minnesota Vintage Retro design. Dayton's was a department store chain founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902 by George Draper Dayton. The 6-story department store was located on the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. It was a twin cities institution and known for beautiful holiday displays.
Dayton's Department Store Minneapolis Minnesota Retro Vintage Mug
by BarryJive
$13 $18
Description: Rink’s Bargain City was a pioneering Ohio-based discount department store chain that flourished from the 1950s through the 1980s. It got its unique name because its very first location was opened in a converted roller skating rink.
Vintage Rinks Bargain City Ohio Discount Department Store Mug
by GOODEYE
$13 $18
Description: Tetragrammaton Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by music industry executives Roy Silver, Bruce Post Campbell, Marvin Deane, and comedian Bill Cosby. Silver, at the time, was also Cosby's manager. The term "Tetragrammaton" refers to the Hebrew name of God considered by some to be unspeakable (YHWH, or "Yahweh", translated as "Jehovah" in English). The label's most successful act was rock band Deep Purple.
Description: Remembering the F. W. Woolworth Co. The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today. It's where we did all our shopping when we were kids.
Description: Remembering Pogue's Department Store in Cincinnati, Ohio. A Cincinnati tradition was born when a bridge across the second level of the arcade was constructed to connect two Pogue buildings, with the Ice Cream Bridge featuring local favorite Graeter's Ice Creams. "The Bridge" was an instant hit.
Description: Remembering the great Abraham & Straus Department Store in Brooklyn NY. Officially Abraham & Straus but everybody just called it A & S. The company's 841,000-square-foot Brooklyn flagship store was located at 422 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2003, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Municipal Art Society put the building on a list of 28 historic buildings in downtown Brooklyn that needed to be protected.
Abraham & Straus. A&S. Department Store. Brooklyn NY Mug
by Nostalgia Place
$13 $18
Saturn Productions Defunct 80s Home Video Distributor New York City Mug
by DarkLordPug
$13 $18
Description: Remembering the great Filene’s Department Store with their 1960's logo. Filene's was an American department store chain founded by William Filene in 1881. The former Filene's flagship store at Downtown Crossing in Boston is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The success of the original full-line store in Boston, Massachusetts was supplemented by its off-price sister store Filene's Basement in 1908. Filene’s Basement became a much-visited tourist attraction. Starting in 1947, the Boston flagship store held an annual one-day bridal gown sale which was dubbed The Running of the Brides.
