Schuster's, officially Ed. Schuster & Co., was a department store chain, founded in 1883, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it is now defunct.
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Department store in Milwaukee
Schuster's opted for several neighborhood stores over a single downtown location, and Shuster's locations included 2151 N. King Drive (3rd Street at that time), 12th and Vliet, Mitchell Street, Packard Plaza, and Capitol Court. The building on King Drive was designed by Kirchoff & Rose. Gimbels bought Schuster's in 1962 and operated as Gimbels-Schuster's until 1969. Golda Meir worked at Shuster's after graduating from high school in 1915 and before moving to Palestine in 1921.
Schuster's notable marketing efforts included the first trading stamps, in 1891, an early version of the charge card called Budga-Plate, a doll named Billie the Brownie from 1927 to 1955, Schuster's Christmas Parade, and the catch-phrase "Let's go by Schuster's where the streetcar bends the corner round."
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An unrelated group of furniture stores in Arkansas, also carrying the Schuster's name, operated for many years, with locations in Little Rock and North Little Rock, as well as a Pine Bluff store that eventually transferred briefly to Conway.
There was also a restaurant called Schuster's House of Fine Foods located in Greenville, PA, between circa 1930 and circa 1945.
References
External links
- Schuster's Department Store images
- Schuster's Department Store in 1908 painting
- Schuster's trading stamps images
- Billie the Brownie images
- Billie the Brownie images
- Billie the Brownie article at Marquette University's Children in Urban America Project
- Billie the Brownie video at the Wisconsin Broadcasting Museum
- Billie the Brownie Christmas Show video, originally aired December 25, 1954
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