Schuster's
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Schuster's, officially Ed. Schuster & Co., was a department store chain, founded in 1883, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it is now defunct.[1][2]
Department store in Milwaukee
Schuster's opted for several neighborhood stores over a single downtown location,[3] and Schuster's locations included 2151 N. Third St. (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), 12th and Vliet streets and 11th and Mitchell streets,[4] Packard Plaza and Capitol Court.[5] Kirchhoff & Rose.[4] designed the Third Street store. Gimbels bought Schuster's in 1962 and operated as Gimbels-Schuster's until 1969.[4] Golda Meir worked at Schuster's after graduating from high school in 1915 and before moving to Palestine in 1921.[6][7]
Schuster's notable marketing efforts included the first trading stamps, in 1891,[8] an early version of the charge card called Budga-Plate, a doll named Billie the Brownie from 1927 to 1955,[9][10] Schuster's Christmas Parade,[5] and the catch-phrase "Let's go by Schuster's where the streetcar bends the corner round."[7]
Others
An unrelated group of furniture stores in Arkansas, also carrying the Schuster's name, operated for many years, with locations in Little Rock and North Little Rock, as well as a Pine Bluff store that eventually transferred briefly to Conway.[11]
There was also a restaurant called Schuster's House of Fine Foods located in Greenville, PA, between circa 1930 and circa 1945.[12]
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