Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It ended the way many things end in Milwaukee — with people looking for bargains and a side order of nostalgia. On Aug. 16, 1986, ...

As the holiday season dawned last year, author Michael Lisicky conjured the heyday of Milwaukee's Downtown shopping culture with "Gimbels Has It!." Now, the same publisher has issued Paul Geenan's ...

“Department stores played the role of being everything. It was part of a social experience and that’s what has been lost from shopping,” author Michael Lisicky said. “It gave people a reason to leave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Impromptu concerts were held through summer months out on the lawn . . with singing and dancing afterwards into the wee hours." ...

In Philadelphia, when you thought of Toyland and the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Gimbels was the department store that lured you to Market Street. Gimbels began as a humble dry goods store in Indiana and ...

NEW YORK — Bernard B. Zients, a former Gimbels New York president known for innovative merchandising and marketing strategies when the store slugged it out with Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s in the ...

Services will be held Friday for Ronald Ruskin, former chairman and chief executive officer of Gimbels and president of its parent company BATUS Retail Group, who died Wednesday at the age of 91.

Uber has signed a 25,000 s/f lease for office space at The Falchi Building in Long Island City. The Falchi Building JLL negotiated the deal for Uber Technologies Inc. at the 680,000 s/f property at 31 ...

Michael J. Lisicky's new book, "Gimbels Has It!," now out in paperback from The History Press, is perfectly timed. It arrives as many Milwaukeeans are likely feeling a pang of nostalgia for what was ...

When it started a century ago, the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia was basically a Santa Claus delivery system. The procession of floats, marching bands, and dignitaries originally came up ...