Part 2 Edwards (NY) Pearl’s Department Store

Chain: Pearl’s Department Stores (Chateaugay)

Date Opened: September 1, 1954

Date Closed:  circa February 25, 1967

Street Address(es) when open (Building name/block) Main Street [Current Address]:

Former Store(s)  in Location(s):  A. E. Clark Store (for sixty years)

Later Store(s) in Location(s): laundromat

Buildings still exist?:

Owners, Managers, Employees:

  • Manager: James Ferraro – at start
  • Alice J. Brown, manager
  • Dolores Hughes, clerk
  • Marion G. Lennox, clerk
  • Lillian Boni, clerk

Subsequent Owners if sold: Was not a clothing store

Articles, Pictures, Ads:

Pearl’s Edwards – Pearl’s adds fifth store (CR 1954-07-30 p1)


Pearl’s Edwards – Store opens (Tribune-Press 1954-08-26 p1)

Pearl’s Hermon – Edwards and Hermon portrait (Tribune-Press 1957-05-09 p9)

Pearl’s Edwards – Woman’s Bowling League (Tribune-Press 1959-10-29 p4)

Pearl’s Edwards – Bowling Team (Tribune-Press 1961-02-02 p3)


Pearl’s Edwards – Closes (Tribune-Press 1967-03-01 p2)


Pearl’s Edwards – Apt. above store (Tribune-Press 1968-06-05 p4)

Pearl’s Edwards – Laundromat in former Pearl’s (Tribune-Press 1968-09-18 p12)

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