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517:. December 14, 1924. "The parking troubles of customers of Franklin Simon & Co, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street, will be ended tomorrow under a plan devised by Franklin Simon, head of the department store. At a cost of $ 50,000, the store will provide parking space in a private garage for all of their customers using automobiles." Retrieved July 21, 2013.
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Perhaps the first person to view Fifth Avenue as a major retail and fashion center, Simon initiated "Buyers Week" and "Market Week", thus revolutionizing how manufacturers and retailers presented and sold new fashions and simultaneously generating millions of dollars in business for the surrounding
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as a buyer for the firm. It was during one of these business trips that Simon became acquainted with Herman A. Flurscheim, one of Stern
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Franklin Simon & Co. opened its doors for business in
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Merchant and Art Collector Was 63 Years Old. Flurscheim wed Miss Bella Goldsmith, of this city, in 1876. She died four years ago leaving five children who now survive him. They are Mrs. Ansel Strauss, Mrs. Otto Loeb, Mrs. Harry Cowen and Bernard and Harry
635:. May 11, 1925. "The Jefferson Centennial Committee, headed by Franklin Simon ... will begin the work of raising funds to purchase the ancestral home of Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, Va., which they plan to convert into a national shrine." Retrieved July 20, 2013.
304:, Thomas Jefferson's home; bound for demolition if not for Mr. Simon's efforts. He was also the director of the Hospital for Joint Diseases and a member of the board of governors of the Stuyvesant Square Hospital. Simon was a member of the Empire State Luncheon Club,
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In the 1930s, Franklin Simon & Co. would be the first retail store on Fifth Avenue to remain open until nine o'clock in the evening, a remarkable "experiment" that ultimately proved a success and left a lasting impact on the retail industry in the United States.
227:. Their talent helped change the future of department store display windows, creating futuristic designs that stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue. Simon was also the first Fifth Avenue merchant to offer on-site parking for his customers, a plan he devised himself.
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in 1912, Mr. Simon provided clothes and financial support for two French orphans rescued from a lifeboat. He published the little girls' picture in major newspapers with the hope of finding their family. He insured they had whatever they needed at no cost.
609:. April 21, 1912. "he children were outfitted to-day without charge by Franklin Simon & Co. of 414 Fifth Avenue. No request was made to them to do it, but as soon as they heard that the children were in the store they offered us whatever they needed."
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in 1865 to Henri and Helene Simon. He had three brothers and three sisters. Simon's father was a cigar-maker and wood carver, his mother a seamstress. After his father's untimely death in 1878, Simon found work at a cash-boy at
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389:, Simon's personal estate, excluding Franklin Simon & Co., was worth approximately $ 42 million in 2013 dollars. After Simon's death, his widow sold a controlling interest in Franklin Simon and Co. to the
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679:. October 15, 1934. "Died. Franklin Simon, 69, Founder of Franklin Simon & Co. big Manhattan department store; of uremic poisoning; in Purchase, N. Y." Retrieved July 23, 2013.
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neighborhood. By 1922, Simon was known amongst his contemporaries as a "merchant prince", and was one of the leading figures in setting the fashion trends of the day.
622:. April 4, 1932. "France made Franklin Simon a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for having done more than any other person to put U. S. women into French clothes."
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