Category: default || By jt3y
No, the Cox's pictures aren't up. Mea culpa. I was overtaken by events. Check back Wednesday.
Also, to answer Bob's question in the comments on Friday's Almanac, Cox's and Jaison's did indeed have branches at Monroeville Mall. I believe Jaison's also had a store in Braddock; it may have been Jaison's original store, if my memory is correct.
If I can digress for a bit, I think Jaison's didn't technically go out of business, but actually merged into the Fashion Bug chain. (Jaison's was the bane of my existence growing up, because people from Our Fair City --- including teachers --- always misspelled my name with an "i" when I was a kid.)
Besides Monroeville, Cox's also had stores at Beaver Valley Mall, Norwin Shopping Center, East Hills Shopping Center, and in downtown Washington, Pa. Cox's took over a store called "Caldwell's" on South Main Street, directly across from the courthouse. It was known as Cox's-Caldwell's for a while, and later just "Cox's."
Bob asks if there's any such thing as a "locally-owned" department store. I don't think so, or at least, not in Western Pennsylvania. Not everything is owned by the May Company and Federated, however; Boscov's is still independent, as is The Bon-Ton, and they both have some branches around the region.
Boscov's is based in Reading, and Bon-Ton is based in York, so they're locally-owned to people in those cities, at least!
Sufficed to say, that makes Pennsylvania the last frontier for independent department store retailing. Having two big chains headquartered in a state used to be at least typical, but now in the age of Sprwal*Mart, and “Macy*s: way to cram it down everyone’s throats!” it’s friggin’ extraordinary!
Sorry, haven’t had my morning coffee! LOL
Steven Swain (URL) - August 02, 2005
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