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Younkers Inc. is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa. The retailer had evolved over more than 150 years to
Exterior of Younkers in Traverse City, Michigan, located at the Cherryland Center, in a former H. C. Prange Co. The interior of this store was never remodeled, and retained 1970's style decor until it closed in August 2018.
The original Younkers store in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The building was vacated when the store closed on August 12, 2005. The eastern building was destroyed by fire in the early hours of March 29, 2014.
A Younkers in Marquette, Michigan which was converted from H.C. Prange
Exterior of a Younkers store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a former H. C. Prange Co., in 2006, which was converted into Boston Store in 2008.
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H. C. Prange Co., commonly known as Prange's, was an American department store chain begun by H. C. Prange in 1887 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At its peak, it operated stores in the states of Wisconsin,
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…Brandeis department store chain in 1987. After returning to public ownership on the NASDAQ on April 22, 1992, Younkers purchased the 22 stores of the H.C. Prange chain in Wisconsin and Michigan. After a hostile takeover bid by Carson Pirie Scott was rejected in 1995, Younkers' shareholders agreed to a friendly…
Image of an Prange's store, taken from a 1991 GMC dealers ad