Maison Blanche Department Stores

 ( Book Product ) 

• Maison Blanche Department Stores available on May 24 2015 from Indigo for 24.99
  
• Maison Blanche Department Stores available on April 27 2015 from ECampus for 18.69
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738588179 ξ1 registered April 24 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738588179 ξ2 registered July 21 2013
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978073858817
  
• Sku # 9780738588179N
  

Shwartz, Gus Schullhoefer, and Hartwig D. Newman--with financial backing from banker Isidore Newman--opened the Maison Blanche at the corner of Canal Street and Rue Dauphine in New Orleans. Converting Shwartz''s dry goods store into the city''s first department store, the trio created a retail brand whose name lasted over a century. In 1908, Shwartz tore his store down and built what was the city''s largest building--13 stories, with his Maison Blanche occupying the first five floors. The MB Building became, and still is, a New Orleans icon, and Maison Blanche was a retail leader in the city, attracting some of the best and brightest people in the business. One of those employees, display manager Emile Alline, created the store''s second icon, the Christmas character Mr. Bingle, in 1947. Mr. Bingle continues to spark the imagination of New Orleans children of all ages. Even though Maison Blanche has become part of New Orleans''s past, the landmark Canal Street store lives on as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

^ Maison Blanche Department Stores Indigo. ISBN 9780738588179 (revised May 2015)
^ (2013). Maison Blanche Department Stores ECampus. ISBN 9780738588179 (revised Apr 2015)