Some articles on department stores including:
... Palmers (Great Yarmouth and branches) - Group of 5 department stores including Palmers (Great Yarmouth) Palmers Bury St Edmunds (Bury St Edmunds) - Formerly Plumptons Palmers Lowestoft (Lowestoft) - Formerly ...
Famous quotes containing the words department stores, including, department and/or stores:
“While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods of dress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“Piles of gold are not as good as stores of grain.”
—Chinese proverb.