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Hess's, originally known as Hess Brothers, was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company was founded a single store in 1897, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its commercial peak in the late 1980s. The chains stores were closed or sold off in a series of deals in the early to mid-1990s.
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A 1900 advertisement for the Grand Central Hotel in Allentown
Hess Brothers store on the 800 block of Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in 1915
Zsa Zsa Gabor's promotional visit with the Hess Brothers and Hess's Center City Allentown store in 1968
Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Allentown is a city in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the third-most-populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the nation as of 2020.
Image: 2018 Center Square Looking Northeast 12 Oct Allentown PA
Image: 2021 500 Block Hamilton Street North Side Drone Allentown PA
Image: Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Image: 2013 Miller Symphony Hall Auditorium