Ames Department Stores
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Ames Department Stores, Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States. The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and a
An Ames location in Seabrook, New Hampshire, originally a King's. Now demolished as of August 2025.
A vacant Ames in Lowville, New York.
Former Ames in Baltimore, Maryland, originally a Zayre (now demolished)
G. C. Murphy
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G.C. Murphy was a chain of five and dime or variety stores in the United States from 1906 to 2002. They also operated Murphy's Mart, Bargain World, Terry & Ferris and Bruners, and Cobbs stores.
Ames Department Stores
…Brothers in November 1978. In 1984 Ames acquired the King's Department Stores chain and added most of its 193 stores to the fold. In 1985 Ames acquired G.C. Murphy of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a chain that operated both discount stores and variety stores (the variety stores and many of the smaller G.C. Murphy…
G.C. Murphy's Richmond, Virginia, store on Broad Street and Fourth was designed by Murphy corporate architect Harold Ellsworth Crosby. In 2004, it was demolished to make way for a parking lot.