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  • Tinnie was in her early twenties, a little bit of a thing but with hips that were amply ample and mounted on gimbels.

    Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990

  • man, you guys must hate gimbels even more than i hate fenders

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  • There is also a story on a Wisconsin mall that may be flipped for a quick profit. john gallo said, on August 8th, 2008 at 1: 55 am how did southridge in milwaukee get into this but you should know i also am not a fan of simon, but have been going to southridge from the vary first day it was open and its a funny thing you keep saying all this bad stuff about it but the parking lot is alwas full and mall is vary bussy. and as far as size goes it is fisicaly the largest in the state its not the number of stores its the sqarefootage of them. southridge stores are vary large look at the sise of boston store alone then figer that the sears and jcpenny are just as big the steve and barrrys is over 100thousand sq. ft and that is just one leveal of the old gimbels store so even though mayfair has more stores thay have less sq footage. but i do agerr that if simon dose nothing soon it will be a problem.

    Labelscar: The Retail History Blog 2008

  • Survival of the fittest in the retail industry …. the saga continues …. john gallo said, on July 23rd, 2008 at 2: 12 am we need mervyns we cant lose another or we will only have macys and kohls the way were going think of how mwny malls wood be replced by wal-marts it happening dont think it ante. and it was kohls that copyed myervens not the other way around when i was a kid growing up in southeastern wisconson kohls was a kmart like store with junk for clothing thay started becomming what we know know as kohls in the 80's and hit there stride after gimbles was shut down. by the way gimbels and kohls were owened by the same company at that time and thay also owned marshall fields. it was this co. that i blame fore the begining of the end for marshall fields not target thay put them and gimbles and at that time even kohls in jeperty by not investing any money in there stores and kohls servived because it was taken privet i do see them posably bying mervyns stores for thre own Greg said, on July 23rd, 2008 at 3: 03 am

    Labelscar: The Retail History Blog 2008

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