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Samuel P. McRae founded the store in Jackson, Mississippi in 1902 as a dry goods store. It remained a family-owned business through the ensuing decades, while continuing to grow. Sales increased from only $1 million in 1955 to $10 million in 1970. The first location outside Mississippi opened in University Mall (now University Town Plaza) in ...
Jitney Jungle. Jitney Jungle was a chain of supermarkets that began in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1919. [1] It was a private Forbes 500 company and one of the largest privately held grocery store chains in the United States. It was acquired by Winn-Dixie in 2000.
List of Mississippi area codes. Area codes of Mississippi. The state of Mississippi is served by the following area codes: Area code 228 serves the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi. Area codes 601 and 769 serve most of southern Mississippi including Jackson. Area code 662 currently serves northern Mississippi, with 471 having been assigned for ...
The mall officially opened on September 12, 1984 [2] with four anchors — Jackson-based McRae's, Gayfers, D.H. Holmes, and JCPenney.The mall also has a cinema located in the back of the mall, originally a 10-screen operation, which later expanded to a 14-screen state-of-the-art setup under Regal Entertainment Group's United Artists Theatres brand, but was sold in September 2018 and closed in ...
In 1968, Sears opened a surplus store in Kansas City. In 1994, the surplus stores were renamed to Sears Outlet. [36] In 1995, Sears Outlet restructured in order to manage repairs and product distribution from a centralized location. To do this, they established a series of facilities known as Outlet Repair and Distribution Centers.
The Lamar Life Building is a historic building in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. [ 1] It was designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style, and it was completed in 1924. [ 1] It is the twelfth tallest building in Jackson, and was considered Jackson's first skyscraper. [ 2][ 3] The architects were Sanguinet, Staats & Hedrick of Fort Worth ...
Surplus store. A surplus store or disposals store is a business that sells items and goods that are used, purchased but unused, or past their use by date, and are no longer needed due to excess supply, decommissioning, or obsolescence. The surplus sold is often military, government, or industrial goods; in the case of the former two, the ...
H. C. Speir. Henry Columbus Speir (October 6, 1895 – April 22, 1972) [1] was an American "talent broker" and record store owner from Jackson, Mississippi. He was responsible for launching the recording careers of most of the greatest Mississippi blues musicians in the 1920s and 1930s. According to blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow, "Speir ...