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unusual facts about Filene's Department Store


The Union Credit Union

The program was conceptualized from the historical writings of Edward Filene’s vision in founding both unions and credit unions in the United States to serve the employees of Filene's Department Store.


Abraham Lincoln Filene

Filene had a keen interest in educational issues and served as a member of the Executive Board of the National Committee for the Department of Education.

Britt's Department Store

During the civil rights Birmingham campaign, civil rights activists organized sit-ins at the segregated lunch counters in Britt's Department Stores, which led to the arrest of 20 protesters.

Cape Cod Mall

The other malls to incorporate a second Macy's (following the closure of its Filene's (or Lord & Taylor) store) is Fox Run Mall in Newington, New Hampshire and Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Catherine Filene Shouse

Born into a wealthy merchandising family, her grandfather William Filene founded Filene's department store, her father was the founder of the Boston Symphony and her mother started the Boston Music School for Underprivileged Children.

Doctor of Business Administration

John Quelch – Dean, Vice President and Distinguished Professor of International Management at CEIBS, previously Senior Associate Dean and the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Downtown Crossing

Vornado Realty Trust had been paying Filene's $500,000 a month in compensation for closing their Downtown Crossing store.

Edward Filene

In 1908, Filene and Massachusetts banking commissioner Pierre Jay, helped organize public hearings on creating credit union legislation in Massachusetts.

Garfinckel's Department Store

Garfinckel's Department Store is an eight-story department store building, erected at the northwest corner of 14th and F Streets, across from the Willard Hotel, which is one block from the Treasury Department and less than two blocks from the White House.

The $2,000,000 structure was designed by architects Starrett & van Vleck of New York.

History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport saw commercial development too, such as the formation of several banks and commercial establishments like D. M. Read's department store in its thriving downtown.

Israel's Department Store

Following the takeover of the store, Wilfrid Israel, who had run the business with his brother, emigrated to England, where he took up a research position at Balliol College, Oxford.

They were allegedly flying as a decoy so that another plane, which carried Prime Minister Winston Churchill, could land safely.

From there, he tried to establish contact with the German underground through Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's foreign minister, and organized ship transports for Jewish children escaping from Europe.

James H. Windrim

Snellenberg's Department Store, 1100-42 Market Street (1886–87, demolished 1960s).

In 1871, he was named architect for the Stephen Girard Estate, designing several buildings at Girard College and a complex of stores on Market Street that became Snellenburg's Department Store.

Lucy and Superman

Bandleader Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his young son Little Ricky (Richard Keith) watch the latest episode of the Adventures of Superman television series, which concludes with the narrator stating that Superman will be making personal appearances in the coming week at Macy's Department Store in New York City.

Miller's Department Store

The Henley Street building is currently used by the University of Tennessee for a conference center.

Paul Donnelly Paganucci

Paganucci served as a director of numerous corporations, including Ambase Corporation, State Mutual Securities, Inc., Filene's Basement Corp., Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc., Grace Foundation, Inc. and Sherman Fairchild Foundation.

R. H. Stearn and Company

At the time of Stearn's demise Filene's was owned by Federated Department Stores, and Jordan Marsh was owned by Allied Stores.

Retail Ventures

Retail Ventures was originally created in 2003 as a holding company for DSW (NYSE: DSW), Filene's Basement, and Value City Department Stores.

Shartenberg's Department Store

The Shartenberg Site, as it came to be known, was used as a parking lot until 2008, when groundbreaking for the 31-story 360 State Street building commenced.

The Lee

He used the timbers of this ship to refurbish, in Tudor revivalist style, the interior and frontage of his famed Liberty's department store in London.

The Maine Mall

Porteous closed in 1996 and was replaced with a two-level structure, containing a Filene's Home Store on the lower level, with Sports Authority on the upper level.

They Came for Good

The film covers American Jew's entrepreneurial spirit from the mostly-Jewish peddlers selling goods on the back roads of the South to those who run the general stores that will one day grow into nationwide chains like Macy’s, Sears, Gimbels, Sterns and Filene's, Jews were major purveyors of commercial good in this country and, thus, major contributors to popular culture.

Tim Battersby

at The White House 6 times, as well as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,The Filene Center at Wolf Trap, The Savannah Music Festival, and Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Trimaran Capital Partners

Mistral formed a partnership with the Schottenstein family, which has acquired well-known retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters, DSW Shoe Warehouse and Filene's Basement.

Yasmin Le Bon

As a model, Le Bon has also represented Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Bergdorf Goodman, Biotherm, Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller, Calvin Klein, Versace, Chanel, Christian Dior, Clairol, Escada, Filene's, Frasercard, Avon, and Gianfranco Ferré.


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