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From: "Thomas Fiske" <>
Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] Kaufman-Strauss Dry Goods
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:51:47 -0700
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Dear Pat,

Thank you for that information. I must have been there many times with my
mother. I had forgotten the "Dry Goods" title, but now I recall it.
Apparently, Kaufman's and I left Louisville about the same time.

Tom the Bewildered.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Settle" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:40 AM
Subject: [KYJEFFER] Kaufman-Strauss Dry Goods


>
> Tom,
> According to "The Encyclopedia of Louisville", p. 456:
> Kaufman-Strauss Dry Goods first appeared in Louisville in 1879 in a
storefront outlet on Jefferson St. between Seventh and Eighth Streets.
Henry Kaufman, a local retail clerk, was its founder. In 1883 Benjamin
Straus joined him as a partner. In 1887 the two men moved their business to
S. Fourth St., leasing space from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky
(predecessor of the Louisville Free Public Library). In 1903 a new
Kaufman-Strauss building designed by Louisville architect Mason Maury was
completed at 533-49 S. Fourth St. The LFPL continued to occupy space in the
store until 1908. In 1925, after extensive interior renovation, the concern
was touted in its grand reopening as Louisville's newest department store.
Today, the exterior facade of the 1903 building may be viewed as part of the
eastern wall of the Galleria shopping complex. At its height in the late
1950s, Kaufman's was one of Louisville's finest department
stores.....................
> Thomas Fiske wrote:Dear Listers,
>
> Wasn't there a department store in Louisville named Kaufman-Strauss? Then
> it was just Kaufman. I've lived in an near several cities across the US
and
> might be mistaken, but I left Louisville in 1957 and seem to associate
that
> name with Louisville.
>
> Tom the bewildered
>
>
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