Tidbits Grand Forks - April 16, 2015

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• J.C. Penney built Anchorage, Alaska’s first public parking garage in 1968, following the destruction of their store in the 1964 earthquake there.

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6. Which Everly Brothers song went to the top of the charts in 1957, despite having been banned on What U.S. city is home to the radio in Boston? headquarters of The Home Depot? 7. In what year did test pilot Chuck Where did Sears open its first permYeager break the sound barrier? anent retail store in a foreign land? 8. Who was the first U.S. president What company now owns to be born in a hospital? Bloomingdales? 9. What are the names of the 2 siblings who both had acting roles in What is the largest drug-retailing the movie “Sixteen Candles”? chain in the United States? What five-letter word contains TRIVIA five personal pronouns?

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• Nordstrom’s started out as a small shoe store in Seattle, Washington, in 1901. John Nordstrom had emigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1887 at age 16, arriving with $5 in his pocket. Although he didn’t know a single word of English, he managed to work his way to Seattle. In 1897, he headed north to Alaska to search for gold. Two years later, Nordstrom returned to Seattle, $13,000 richer. He partnered up with a shoemaker he had met in the Klondike, and the pair opened Wallin & Nordstrom in 1901, with first day sales of $12.50. Within four years, annual sales had increased to $80,000. In 1923, they opened a second Seattle store. By 1929, both Wallin and Nordstrom had retired and sold their shares to Nordstrom’s sons. • By 1960, Seattle’s downtown Nordstrom’s shoe store was the largest shoe store in America, and there were eight locations in Washington and Oregon. In 1963, the company branched out into the women’s clothing business. Today, the fourth generation of the Nordstrom family heads up the company. From its humble beginnings of one small shoe store, Nordstrom’s operates 289 stores in 38 U.S. states and one in Canada, with annual sales exceeding $12 billion. • Kohl’s didn’t start out as a department store. The first Kohl’s was a Wisconsin supermarket, founded by Maxwell Kohl in 1946. In 1962, his chain was the largest of its kind in the Milwaukee area, and Kohl branched out, opening his first department store in Brookfield, Wisconsin, in 1962. It is now America’s largest department store chain, (having surpassed J.C. Penney in 2012), operating stores in 49 states.

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