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List of defunct department stores of the United States

This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other department stores.

Department stores

Discount stores

These stores closed due to changes in shopping places and patterns, and/or large debt from mergers and acquisitions.

National and regional

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

  • The Akron (Los Angeles), a Southern California–based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985
  • Blackstone's Department Store
  • Blum's (San Jose), originally M. Blum & Co., established 1907; store appears to have closed shortly after death of owner and founder in 1940
  • The Bon Marché (Los Angeles) (Le Sage Brothers Co.), 430–434 Broadway, Los Angeles, opened in 1907, closed within a year
  • Boston Stores (California), HQ in Inglewood and later Carson; liquidated 1989
  • The Broadway (Los Angeles), converted to Macy's
  • Brock's (Bakersfield), started in 1924 and sold to Gottschalks in 1987
  • Breuner's
  • Buffums
  • Bullock's (Los Angeles), converted to Macy's
  • Bullocks Wilshire (Los Angeles) today it is Southwestern University School of Law.
  • Butler Brothers (California)
  • Carithers's (Petaluma), closed in 1986
  • H.C. Capwell Co. (Oakland), merged with Emporium in 1929 to form the Emporium Capwell Co. holding company, Emporium-Capwell was acquired by Broadway-Hale Stores in 1970, Broadway-Hale Stores later became Carter Hawley Hale Stores and then Broadway Stores, Inc.; during this time, Capwell kept its name until 1979
  • City of Paris Dry Goods Co. (San Francisco), became City of Paris by Liberty House. Demolished except the rotunda, now part of Neiman Marcus.
  • City of Paris (Los Angeles), no relation to the San Francisco store or to Ville de Paris (Los Angeles), 1850s–1897
  • Coulter's
  • Crowley's (Vallejo)
  • Daly's (Eureka), closed in 1995, with four Northern California stores, after operating for exactly 100 years
  • Desmond's, founded 1862, became a large Southland-wide chain, closed 1970s
  • Disco Department Stores (San Rafael), chain of discount stores located in Northern California and Northern Nevada, first store was opened in San Rafael in 1956 as Marin Associated Consumers by co-founder William L. Simmons, stores were later renamed MAC Disco Mart and then MAC Disco Discount Department Stores, chain sold to Daylin in 1966 and renamed Disco Discount Department Stores, first store outside of Northern California opened in Reno in 1968, stores were closed by 1975 due to financial problems with parent company
  • B. H. Dyas
  • Eastern-Columbia Department Store, Eastern Outfitters, Columbia Outfitters, San Francisco/Los Angeles through the 1950s
  • Fedco, a membership retailer, not subject to "Fair Trade pricing"
  • FedMart, a membership retailer, not subject to "Fair Trade pricing"
  • Fedway (Los Angeles) Ã¢Â€Â“ first store in this division opened (in Texas) in 1952 by Federated Department Stores; Westwood store (first in California) opened in 1953; all stores closed and sold off in 1968
  • Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened first branch store in Long Beach in the late 1920s; opened a branch store in San Diego in 1935; San Diego store separated in the early 1950s; opened second Long Beach store in 1954; closed Los Angeles store; sold Long Beach stores in 1960 and store renamed
  • Frink's (Pasadena), founded by Jose and Lola Frink in the early twentieth century, but closed by mid-century
  • Gemco
  • Globe Department Store, South Broadway between 51st–52nd, South Los Angeles (1920s–1930s)
  • Gottschalks, bankrupt March 31, 2009, which closed all of the stores. A few former Gottschalks stores were replaced as Macy's and Forever 21 in the Pacific region. There were plans to reopen stores in Auburn, Clovis and Oakhurst in spring 2011, but the deal ultimately fell through.
  • GET (Government Employees Together) at Lakeshore Plaza, on Sloat Boulevard, in San Francisco, a discount chain, a membership retailer, not subject to "Fair Trade pricing", and open only to employees of local, state, and federal government agencies. Lakeshore Plaza had a Lucky store and in the late 1960s, Government Employees Together became part of Lucky store's Gemco.
  • Grodin's (San Francisco Bay Area), a 36-unit chain of men's and women's specialty stores, closed in January 1987.
  • Gump's (San Francisco) closed 2018
  • Haggarty's, Los Angeles–based chain of junior department stores for apparel, 1906–1970
  • Hale's (Hale Brothers) (Sacramento San Francisco), merged with Broadway in 1970 to form the Broadway-Hale holding company while keeping its name on its stores; merged into The Emporium under Carter, Hawley & Hale.
  • A. Hamburger & Sons (Los Angeles), founded in 1881, purchased by May Co. 1923 and renamed May Company California
  • Harris Department Store, based in San Bernardino, absorbed by Gottschalks
  • Harris & Frank
  • Hart's Department Store (San Jose)
  • Henshey's (Santa Monica), finally closed in 1992 after being in business since 1925
  • Hilson's (Martinez), three locations closed 2001
  • Hink's (Berkeley), also known as J.F. Hink & Son, closed in 1985Arcadia Publishing
  • Hinshaw's (Arcadia and Whittier), both stores were closed in 1992
  • Kahn's (Oakland), founded by Israel Kahn in 1879, acquired by newly formed B. F. Schlesinger & Sons in 1925, B.F. Schlesinger & Sons was renamed Western Department Stores in 1941, Kahn was rebranded Rhodes in 1960
  • S. Lazard & Co.
  • Levee's (Vallejo), closed in the early 1980s
  • Liberty House (became Macy's)
  • H. Liebes (San Francisco), liquidated when its parent company, Beck Industries, filed for bankruptcy in 1970
  • I. Magnin (San Francisco), converted to Macy's
  • Joseph Magnin Co., closed 1984
  • Marston's San Diego, 3 branches, purchased by The Broadway in the 1960s
  • Mattei Bros. (Petaluma) Ã¢Â€Â“ closed in 1995
  • May Company (Los Angeles), merged with Robinsons and became Robinsons-May, then Macy's
  • Mervyn's of California, operated stores in western US. Went bankrupt December 2008
  • Milliron's, see Fifth Street Store, above
  • Nahas, 1953–early 1980s junior department stores with clothing and home goods, mostly in Los Angeles County. Purchased and absorbed independent department stores Rathbun's North Hollywood, Trenwiths Santa Barbara and Butler Bros. Van Nuys.
  • F. C. Nash & Co. Ã¢Â€Â“ Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be closed, main store destroyed in a daytime fire on May 11, 1976
  • National Stores (Los Angeles)
  • O'Connor, Moffat & Co., purchased by Macy's 1945, name changed to Macy's 1947
  • Phelps-Terkel junior department store for apparel, founded 1923, survived in various forms until 1992
  • Pic 'N' Save, became MacFrugal's, then Big Lots
  • Prager's (San Francisco), closed in 1921 after 25 years in business
  • Rankin's, Downtown Santa Ana and Orangefair Center, Fullerton
  • Ransohoff's, (San Francisco and Sacramento) Ransohoff's, Inc., founded in 1902, by Leopold Ransohoff. Ransohoff's was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1958 film, Vertigo, set largely in San Francisco.
  • Rhodes (Sacramento and Central Valley), became Liberty House
  • Robert's, based in Long Beach, which grew to nine stores before closing in the 1990s
  • J.W. Robinson (Los Angeles), converted to Robinsons, then merged with May Company to become Robinsons-May, then eventually became Macy's
  • Rosenberg's (Santa Rosa), located on Third Street; closed in 1998; now a Barnes & Noble
  • Sage's Complete Shopping, one of the first full department stores that coined the name "super market," at Baseline and E Street in San Bernardino, later with stores in Riverside, Rialto, Colton and Redlands, confounded by Milton Ross Sage and C. C. Jenkins, 1937–1973
  • Silverwoods
  • Swelldom, junior department stores for apparel, Los Angeles, 1906–1970s
  • Two Guys
  • Unimart (Los Angeles, San Diego), locations variously became Two Guys, Gemco, FedMart; was owned by Food Giant Markets Inc until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys.
  • Ville de Paris, Los Angeles 1893–1919
  • Walker's, see Fifth Street Store (original Los Angeles store, from which Walker's Long Beach spun off) and Walker Scott (San Diego spinoff).
  • Walker's (Long Beach)
  • Walker Scott (San Diego), Solana Beach branch is now a HomeGoods store; founded as a branch of the Walker's Department Store of Los Angeles in 1935; close Walker associate George Scott became president in 1951 following death of Eliza Walker, widow of the deceased founder, in 1951; name of store changed to Walker-Scott in 1955; downtown store closed in 1984; all stores closed by 1986
  • Webb's
  • Weinstein's (1041 Market Street San Francisco), founded by Isidor Weinstein, went bankrupt in 1968
  • Weinstock's (Sacramento), founded in 1874 as the One-Price Store by David Lubin and his half brother Harris Weinstein, renamed Mechanics' Store the following year, later renamed The Weinstock Lubin Company, acquired by Hale Bros. 1949, eventually acquired by Federated in 1995 via various mergers of its parent company, stores eventually rebranded Macy's
  • White Front
  • The White House (San Francisco), closed in 1965
  • Whole Earth Access (Berkeley), last stores closed in 1998
  • Wineman's (HQ in Ventura, Oxnard, then Huntington Park)
  • Zody's (Los Angeles), bankrupt and locations were sold to Ralphs Grocery Stores in 1986

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Puerto Rico

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

  • Block's Department Store (Idaho Falls and region) It was a Pocatello-based department store chain that had stores in Idaho and Utah and was liquidated in 1986. Not to be confused with the Indianapolis-based William H. Block Co. which was also known as "Block's".
  • Idaho Department Store (southern Idaho) Caldwell-based department store chain that was purchased by the P.N. Hirsch division of Interco in 1966 when it had 25 stores and had survived at least to the mid-1980s. The chain was still a part of Interco when P.N. Hirsch was sold in 1983, but there is no mention of the chain in print after that point.
  • King's Variety Store

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

8 Gorman's Department Store (Kansas City, Kansas)

Kentucky

Louisiana

  • Beall-Ladymon (Shreveport), purchased from Horace Ladymon by Stage Stores, Inc. in 1994. Stores converted to Stage soon thereafter.
  • D. H. Holmes (New Orleans), purchased by Dillard's in 1989
  • Krauss, 1903–1997
  • Maison Blanche (New Orleans), last operated under that name by Mercantile Stores Co. Remaining Maison Blanche stores converted to Dillard's in 1998.
  • The Palace (Monroe)
  • Palais Royal (Shreveport), purchased by Wellan's of Alexandria 1985. Rebranded and later closed. Stage later revived the name after their purchase of Wellan's.
  • Selber Bros. (Shreveport), begun in 1907, purchased by and converted to Dillard's in 1988

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York (state)

North Carolina

  • Brody's (Kinston), acquired by Proffitt's in 1998
  • Clarks Department Store Greensboro, North Carolina, acquired by Cooks in 1968, closed 1982
  • Ivey's (Charlotte), acquired by Dillard's in 1990
  • Sky City closed 1990

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

  • Mervyns (the chain may come back, by the Morris decisions)
  • Fred Meyer
  • Grand Central Stores, acquired by Fred Meyer 1985, acquired 1999 by Kroger in a merger and operations assumed by Smith's Food and Drug Stores (now a separate division of Kroger and converted into Smith's Marketplace)
  • ZCMI (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), founded and operated by the LDS Church until purchased by May Company (1999), became Meier and Frank in 2003, some stores sold to Dillard's, others became Macy's in 2005

Vermont

Virginia

Washington (state)

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

  • Stockgrowers Mercantile Co. (Rock Springs), opened in the 1870s as Tim Kinney and Co.

See also

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