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- GrandPas abstract "GrandPa's or GrandPa Pidgeon's was a discount store founded in 1954 by Tom and Mildred Pidgeon, spreading across the midwest from its Bridgeton, Missouri (near St. Louis) origins, which remained truly \"discount\", when most others like Venture, Kmart and Target gradually raised prices in order to finance a more attractive layout and broader range of merchandise. Tom Pidgeon, born in Sebring, Ohio in 1902, was in the low price china business from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. He sold his company, Pidgeon Vitrified China in 1953 when he foresaw the impact plastic was having on the lower end dinnerware market. The first Grandpa Pidgeon's was opened in February 1954 and managed by his son-in-law, John (Jack) Holley, born in 1924 in Galena, Kansas.In 1958 Jack Holley began a separate but related enterprise known as Grandpa's, and opened a store on Collinsville Road between East St. Louis and Collinsville, Illinois. Over the next decade, Holley subsequently opened several other stores in the St. Louis metropolitan area, before buying the company outright from his father-in-law in 1968.Holley formed the Gramex Corporation in 1970, which also oversaw such companies as Forsythe Computers and Omni Sports, which was forced to close due to increasing competition.In 1986 Jack Holley retired and turned the company over to his oldest son Tom Holley, who presided over an expansion both within and outside the metro St. Louis area into locations such as Greenville, Illinois and Farmington, Missouri, among other places. By the late 1990s there were thirteen Grandpa's locations.GrandPa's was sold, in 1999, to Value City[1]. It had approximately $200,000,000 in sales in its final year. It was profitable until its sale, failing to end only 1993 in the black, but was said to be facing a harder struggle near the end.The company was known for their newspaper distributed advertising circulars that were printed mostly with black ink on a brown paper, in contrast to the glossy full color circulars of competitors.In October 2008, a former Grandpa's employee started a website as a gathering place for all former GrandPa's, GrandPa Pidgeon's, and Gramex employees. It is a place for them to re-connect with old friends and share stories of your time at GrandPa's. It used to be at: www.grandpasreunion.com, but is no longer in operation.".
- GrandPas foundationPlace St._Louis.
- GrandPas foundingYear "1954".
- GrandPas industry Retail.
- GrandPas location St._Louis.
- GrandPas wikiPageExternalLink www.grandpasreunion.com.
- GrandPas wikiPageExternalLink grandpas.htm.
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- GrandPas wikiPageLength "3479".
- GrandPas wikiPageOutDegree "22".
- GrandPas wikiPageRevisionID "651001234".
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Bridgeton,_Missouri.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_based_in_Missouri.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_based_in_St._Louis,_Missouri.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_disestablished_in_1999.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1954.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_companies_based_in_Missouri.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_discount_stores_of_the_United_States.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Deals.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Farmington,_Missouri.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Galena,_Kansas.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Gramex_Corporation.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Greenville,_Illinois.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Jack_Murdock_(actor).
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Kmart.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Retail.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Sebring,_Ohio.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink St._Louis.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Target_Corporation.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Value_City.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLink Venture_Stores.
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLinkText "GrandPa Pidgeon's".
- GrandPas wikiPageWikiLinkText "GrandPa's".
- GrandPas foundation "1954".
- GrandPas homepage "none".
- GrandPas industry Retail.
- GrandPas keyPeople "Tom Holley, Jack Holley".
- GrandPas location St._Louis.
- GrandPas name "GrandPa's, Inc.".
- GrandPas products "Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares.".
- GrandPas type "Defunct".
- GrandPas wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_company.
- GrandPas wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-retail-company-stub.
- GrandPas subject Category:Companies_based_in_Missouri.
- GrandPas subject Category:Companies_based_in_St._Louis,_Missouri.
- GrandPas subject Category:Companies_disestablished_in_1999.
- GrandPas subject Category:Companies_established_in_1954.
- GrandPas subject Category:Defunct_companies_based_in_Missouri.
- GrandPas subject Category:Defunct_discount_stores_of_the_United_States.
- GrandPas hypernym Store.
- GrandPas type Agent.
- GrandPas type Company.
- GrandPas type Organisation.
- GrandPas type Company.
- GrandPas type Disestablishment.
- GrandPas type Establishment.
- GrandPas type Organization.
- GrandPas type Redirect.
- GrandPas type Store.
- GrandPas type Organization.
- GrandPas type Organization.
- GrandPas type Agent.
- GrandPas type SocialPerson.
- GrandPas type Thing.
- GrandPas type Q43229.
- GrandPas comment "GrandPa's or GrandPa Pidgeon's was a discount store founded in 1954 by Tom and Mildred Pidgeon, spreading across the midwest from its Bridgeton, Missouri (near St. Louis) origins, which remained truly \"discount\", when most others like Venture, Kmart and Target gradually raised prices in order to finance a more attractive layout and broader range of merchandise. Tom Pidgeon, born in Sebring, Ohio in 1902, was in the low price china business from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.".
- GrandPas label "GrandPa's".
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- GrandPas sameAs Q5594205.
- GrandPas wasDerivedFrom GrandPas?oldid=651001234.
- GrandPas isPrimaryTopicOf GrandPas.
- GrandPas name "GrandPa's, Inc.".