The new store gives Bacon's four outlets in the Louisville area.
Bacon's Department Store has opened its 54,000-square-foot unit in Bacon's Shively shopping center along with 15 other stores. On a lot totalling 72,000 square feet, selling space of the actual two floors of the store is 34,000 square feet. It was opened less than 11 months after ground was broken for it. This is the first suburban unit in Kentucky. Matthews has emphasis the rear entrance of the store. ^ "Bacon's Plays Up Back of the Store"."Bacon's to close its downtown store on Sept. "Dillard's to exit Galleria by January's end". The store in the Youngstown Shopping Center in Jeffersonville moved in 1990 to River Falls Mall. By the mid-1950s, this store was determined to be too small and was replaced by a much larger store in the newly built Youngstown shopping center in 1956. One of the earliest location in Indiana was on Spring Street in downtown Jeffersonville. Southern Indiana īacon's always had a presence in Indiana prior to the opening of its St.
Mercantile Stores was acquired by Dillard's in 1998 and the Bacon's name was retired. Some Louisville-based department store chain competitors included Stewart Dry Goods, Ben Snyders, and Kaufman-Straus. In the 1990s, Bacon's faced increasing competition from national chains, including Dillard's, which would often open up locations in the same shopping centers as Bacon's. Bacon's also held "Midnight Madness" sales that were popular with shoppers. īacon's marketed itself as Kentucky's oldest department store, and often held elaborate sales and celebrations for its anniversaries. In 1988, it opened a location in Mall St. In 1982, Bacon's revived its Downtown Louisville presence with a store in the Louisville Galleria (later renamed Fourth Street Live!). The chain added a location in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1977. Matthews in 1953 locations followed in Shively in 1956 and Bashford Manor Mall in 1972. Bacon's opened a suburban location in St. The store was acquired by Ohio-based Mercantile Stores when Claflin went bankrupt in 1914. Claflin & Company, the owner of Stewart Dry Goods.
In 1903, Bacon's sons sold the store to the large New York City-based dry goods conglomerate H.B. The store remained open until September 6, 1972, when it closed to make way for the Kentucky International Convention Center. The new 115,000-square-foot (10,700 m 2) building had entrances on each street and featured a distinctive spiraling atrium. In 1901, Bacon's opened a location on Fourth and Market streets that became its flagship store. In 1876 he moved into a structure four times larger than the original. Jeremiah Bacon opened a store called Bacon's Dry Goods in 1845 on Market Street near Hancock Street. Louisville, Kentucky, Southern Indiana, Owensboro, Kentuckyīacon's was a chain of department stores based in Louisville, Kentucky.
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