{"id":4821,"date":"2012-12-05T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2021-01-23T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T00:37:59","slug":"b-forman-department-store-ads-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2012\/12\/b-forman-department-store-ads-rochester\/","title":{"rendered":"B. Forman Co."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFor the past few days we’ve been doing some holiday window shopping at the old Sibley’s<\/a> and McCurdy’s<\/a> department stores. “But, WAIT! What about B. Forman’s?…” you say? Well, I searched around a bit, and though I wasn’t able to find many photos of window displays from B. Forman Co., fear not… I’ve got something you might like. Newspaper ads from December 18 – December 25, 1929! Don’t say I never gave you anything…<\/p>\n

Democrat and Chronicle, December 18, 1929…<\/p>\n

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Democrat and Chronicle, December 20, 1929…<\/p>\n

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Democrat and Chronicle, December 22, 1929…<\/p>\n

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Democrat and Chronicle, December 25, 1929…<\/p>\n

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About B Forman Co.
\nDepartment Store…<\/h3>\n

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\nB. Formans’s was incorporated in 1912 and operated a store at 46 Clinton Avenue<\/a>. The founder’s son, Maurice Forman, later took over the business, expanded it and attracted fame by co-developing the Midtown Plaza with Gilbert McCurdy and moving the store into the plaza. McCurdy’s and Forman’s both closed in 1994.<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays and Shop Local!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few days we’ve been doing some holiday window shopping at the old Sibley’s and McCurdy’s department stores. “But, WAIT! What about B. Forman’s?…” you say? Well, I searched around a bit, and though I wasn’t able to find many photos of window displays from B. Forman Co., fear not… I’ve got something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,788],"tags":[678,1387,1520,56,134,508,717,118,559,1527,416,669,1454,53,355,151,969],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester_history","category-old-photos-of-rochester-ny","tag-ad","tag-b-foreman-co-department-store","tag-christmas","tag-clinton-ave","tag-clinton-avenue","tag-democrat-chronicle","tag-democrat-and-chronicle","tag-downtown-rochester","tag-holidays","tag-mccurdy-co","tag-old-photos","tag-old-photos-of-rochester","tag-old-photos-of-rochester-ny-2","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-history","tag-rochester-ny","tag-sibly-lindsay-curr-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13872,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/13872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}