“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 ...

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 ...

To revisit the long-closed Gimbels Corridor is to relive New York’s past-tense future. In the early 1970s, conditions in the pedestrian tunnel presaged the bleeding city of the 1980s and early ’90s.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Services will be held Friday for Ronald Ruskin, former chairman and chief executive officer of Gimbels and president of its parent ...

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 ...

It ended the way many things end in Milwaukee — with people looking for bargains and a side order of nostalgia. On Aug. 16, 1986, one of Milwaukee's retail giants, Gimbels, closed the doors of its ...