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Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, bath products, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares.
Sep 3, 2021 · Mervyn's was a popular discount clothing chain in California that closed in 2008. Learn how it was acquired by Target, lost its identity, and failed to survive the 2008 housing crisis.
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Aug 30, 2021 · Mervin Morris, who died last week at the age of 101, achieved two remarkable accomplishments – among many others, to be sure – in his lifetime, one historic and one a historic footnote. He ...
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Mervyn's was founded in 1949 in San Lorenzo, California by Mervin Morris, who took the advice of an architect who told him that exchanging the 'i' in his first name for a 'y' would add flair to the department store that he named after himself.
Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, bath products, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares.
Oct 20, 2008 · Learn about the key events in the history of Mervyns, a California-based department store chain that was acquired by Target and later liquidated. See how Mervyns expanded, struggled and eventually closed its doors in 2008.
