BUSINESS

Operating a large retail department store is not easy.  Just ask the owners of these businesses who once operated in the Cincinnati area. How many do you remember?

Alms & Doepke - closed in 1955

Rollman's - closed in 1963

J.J. Newberry - closed in 1974

Value City - closed in 1983

Rink's Bargain City - closed in 1987

Zayre's - closed in 1990

Van Leunen's - closed in 1994

Swallen's - closed in 1995

Service Merchandise - closed in 2002

Value City (not furniture) - closed in 2008

Old names no longer used but stores still in use:

Mabley & Carew - converted to Elder-Beerman

McAlpin's - sold to Dillard's

H.& S. Pogue - sold to J.C.Penny

John Shillito - sold to Lazarus

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