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[edit] Article name is misspelled

As any New Yorker knows, it's Gimbels -- no apostrophe.

• See two period newspaper ads here:
  

http://www.geocities.com/broadcastpioneers/gimbels45.html
and here
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Cowboy/lr-gimbels1.JPG

• See photos of the sign itself here:
  

http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/macys-gimbels.jpg
and here
http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2003-02/6492330.jpg

• See an image of the Gimbels Flyer train toy that the department store had, here:
  

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Cowboy/lr-gimbels2.JPG

• And to assure that it's not just the NY store, see this headline and story from the Appleton [Wisconsin] Post-Crescent, November 18, 1968, here:

http://www.foxvalleyhistory.org/turningpoints/businesses/business-gimbels1.html --69.22.254.111 15:31, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of former locations

Ugh. Do we really need those freaking MSA's? They just make everything more confusing. It's also nearly impossible to add locations to the list when one can never figure out what MSA a certain city is in. I'm working on a major overhaul of the store listing. TenPoundHammer 20:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Gimbelz.gif

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