#gimbel's

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Doll shopping at Gimbel's, 1947.

Photo: Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine via MCNY

[mudwerks]

(via Greenbriar Picture Shows: Ads and Oddities #4)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Gimbel's was Macy's across-the-street rival. This was taken during the Christmas shopping season in 1957. Shoppers seem to be listening to carolers dressed in 19th century costumes.

Photo: Eddie Hausner for the NY Times via Times Instagram

[gameraboy2]

1979 Gimbel's Iconic NYC Buildings button

[furryalligator]

(via Inside the Beautiful Gimbel's Skybridge at Herald Square | Untapped Cities)

[thehistorybuffphiladelphia]

1905

Gimbel's Department Store, Center city Philadelphia

Hosted the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the US until Macy's

[rickkanelives]

Excerpting the Andy Warhol Diaries - August 4

August 4, 1986 Went to the office. The Hare Krishna kid from Max's in the sixties stopped by--the one who was just in Hannah and Her Sisters. He'd been to Gimbel's which is going out of business and he said it's a shame to see a store that's such a tradition go out of business, that this great name was going down. But it's just a name. So what. And here's this Hare Krishna saying it, it was funny. I guess Macy's will be the only thing happening over on Herald Square. I read Cindy Adams's obituary of Roy Cohn. She said she knew he was dying at that party at the Palladium when they had to help him off the podium and that when she shook his hand his weight fell on her. Fred's mad because my name is linked with Roy's in all his obituaries as one of his good friends. And Roy's stuff is going to look just like Rock Hudson's at auction. All weird things that you don't know why they'd be in a house, like things people gave him. His house in town was always just on the verge of being a slum, but the one in Greenwich was more decorated, more chintzed-up.

[ci13]

Window displays at Gimbel's department store to promote the 1950 Carnegie International.

- Archive of the Carnegie Museum of Art