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Payless ShoeSource Worldwide, LLC [3] (formerly known as Payless ShoeSource Inc. ), is an American multinational discount footwear chain. Established in 1956 by cousins Louis and Shaol Pozez, Payless was a privately held company owned by Blum Capital, and Golden Gate Capital. In 1961, it became a public company as the Volume Shoe Corporation ...
Muir's Department Store was an American retail store; in the 1920s, it was the largest in the Main Street shopping district in the downtown area of East Orange, New Jersey. The store is now defunct. In 1882, the R.H. Muir Company (the store's official parent company), founded Muir's Department Store, which became the flagship store of the large ...
Death of Mary Jane Barker. On February 25, 1957, Mary Jane Barker, an American 4-year-old girl from Bellmawr, New Jersey, went missing along with her playmate's dog. After an extensive search throughout the city, dubbed by the press as "the largest search in South Jersey ", her dead body was discovered by her playmate in the closet of a vacant ...
Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc. was a pharmacy holding company that owned the Thrifty Drugs and PayLess Drug Stores chains in the western United States. The combined company was formed in April 1994 when Los Angeles–based TCH Corporation, the parent company of Thrifty Corporation and Thrifty Drug Stores, Inc., acquired the Kmart subsidiary PayLess Drug Stores Northwest, Inc. [1] At the time ...
August 25, 1941 – An EF2 tornado in Gloucester County killed a person. [8] August 16, 1955 – An F2 or stronger tornado touched down in Monmouth County. [9] October 16, 1955 [2] May 6, 1956 [2] June 13, 1958 – There were three tornadoes in the state. An F2 tornado touched down in near Maple Shade in Camden County.
The discount shoe chain has filed for Chapter 11 protection on less than $1 billion in assets and $10 billion in liabilities. Payless has filed for bankruptcy and will immediately close 400 stores ...
Monroe Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1838, from portions of South Amboy Township, based on the results of a referendum held that same day. Portions of the township were taken to form East Brunswick (February 28, 1860), Cranbury (March 7, 1872), and Jamesburg (March 19, 1887).
New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]