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history of the bigger Dayton department stores
history of the bigger Dayton department stores
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Dia
12 posts
Feb 12, 2011
6:22 PM
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I was just looking at the pics for the 1950's and noticed a couple of "Beerman's Home Store". My aunt worked at the Home Store during the 50's and I remember visiting her at work in the toy dept. What I don't recall is that it was owned by or merged with Beerman's. I remember Elder's being bought by Beerman's and becoming Elder-Beerman before the big Elder's store downtown closed. Of course I remember Rike's and Sears downtown. Was there a separate Beerman's located downtown and was the Home Store ever a company separate from Beerman's? Can anyone shed some light on the history of these stores?
thanks
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icsalum
63 posts
Feb 13, 2011
4:57 PM
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Dia - after Beerman's bought Elder's, they kept the original Elder's store open for a few years. There was
no original Beerman's store downtown - they had small
budget stores around the perimeter of town. The 'new'
Elder-Beerman's store took over the Home Store location
(with a unique entrance(s) on both Third street and Main street). The original Elder's location in the Reibold building closed upon the move to the old Home
Store location.
My only question is whether Beerman's had a location in
the old Home Store, before the merger with Elder's. If they did, it was only for a few years.
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AllenN71
153 posts
Feb 22, 2011
2:23 PM
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Huber Heights has a pretty new (and pretty big) Elder-Beerman's location.
I recently read a blurb on the 30th anniversary of the incorporation of Huber Heights. One of the City Founders said that Huber's success was a result of looking at the "mistakes" made by other municipalities in the region and avoiding them.
This is kind of hard to argue with, and Huber is thriving and all, but still. Huber Heights has NO defined, permanent downtown area. To this day, when a Huber Heights resident says he is "going downtown", he STILL means he's going to down town DAYTON. The same goes for everybody in Kettering. There isn't any downtown Kettering. Kettering's downtown is DAYTON.
Every community surrounding the city calls the City of Dayton proper their "downtown". You tell me why Huber Heights has a profitable Elder-Beerman's and Dayton doesn't, and I'll tell you how Dayton can join the prosperity bandwagon....again.
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Nile
6 posts
Feb 24, 2011
3:49 PM
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Here is the story of Elder's as I know it. My Mom and I would go shopping downtown going to Elder's when it was just Elder's. Big department store like Rike's. Arthur Beerman worked there as a young boy running an elevator. The boss, I am not sure who the boss of Elder's was at the time, fired Mr. Beerman. He told the boss, "I will own this store someday." He was laughed at. A few years later Mr. Beerman somehow bought Elder's either shrewdly or with a lot of backing. He came in and fired the boss. I am not sure of this story, but that is what I learned years ago. Good story if isn't true. I went to high school with Barbara Beerman.
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