Hess's Department Store by Whelan, Frank A.

Hess's Department Store

Hess's Department Store was a unique department store that with a combination of style and showmanship became...
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Author: Frank A. Whelan
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Language: English
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Hess's Department Store by Whelan, Frank A.

Hess's Department Store

¥6,053

Hess's Department Store

¥6,053
Author: Frank A. Whelan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Hess's Department Store was a unique department store that with a combination of style and showmanship became a shopping legend for almost 100 years.


Founded in 1897 in Allentown by brothers Max and Charles Hess as a dry goods store, it became the downtown heart of Pennsylvania's third-largest city for much of the 20th century. The Hess family was from Germany, and it was Max Hess Sr. who realized the Germans in Pennsylvania had limited access to quality dry goods; with his sons' backgrounds in the retail industry, and a higher quality of merchandise, particularly Hess's French Room, filled with the most in vogue fashions from France. The department store entered its golden age under by Max Hess's son, a showman for merchandising who embraced the life of a department store mogul, living in a giant mansion and rubbing shoulders with celebrities such as Bob Hope and Zsa Zsa Gabor. From the single store in Allentown to more than 80 by the 1990s, it seemed that Hess's was unstoppable, but a national recession and increased retail competition would eventually sink the titan of Pennsylvania retail. Through a series of photographs, many from private collections and seldom seen, Hess's Department Store brings the glory days of Hess's to life again.



Author: Frank A. Whelan, Kurt D. Zwikl
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 12/15/2008
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780738562759

About the Author
Whelan, Frank A.: - For 26 years, Frank A. Whelan was the historical feature writer for the Allentown Morning Call and has won numerous awards for his articles. He was on-air historian for an Emmy award-winning PBS documentary about Hess's and is currently director of special projects at the Lehigh County Historical Society. Kurt D. Zwikl is a former Pennsylvania state representative from the Lehigh Valley and former chair of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. He is currently executive director of Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area. His late father, William Zwikl, was the longtime photographer for Hess's.

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