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Sam Ash To Close All Locations, Including CT Store, After 100 Years In Business
The largest family-owned chain of musical instrument stores in the nation has announced it will be closing all its locations.
Sam Ash Music was founded in 1924, has locations in more than a dozen states, and is headquartered on Long Island, in Hicksville.
It currently has 27 stores, including five in New York (White Plains, Carle Place, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Forest Hills), two in New Jersey (in Springfield and Cherry Hill), two in Pennsylvania (in Philadelphia and King of Prussia), one in Connecticut (in New Haven), and one in Virginia (in Richmond).
The Ash family made the announcemen…
West Hartford Store Permanently Closing After 66 Years In Business
A store in Connecticut is set to close after decades in business.
The Toy Chest, located in West Hartford, will permanently close after 66 years so the owner and managers can retire, according to a report from We-Ha.com.
The store, located at 973 Farmington Ave., is set to close at the end of January, the news outlet reported.
WFSB reported the store's closing sale began on Saturday, Jan. 7, with all merchandise being priced at 50 percent off.
"After being part of The Center for more than 66 years, Toy Chest is saying farewell, and we are so sad to see this toy destination…
Founder Of Caldor Dies At Connecticut Home
Fairfield County entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of the Caldor department store chain, Carl Bennett, has died at the age of 101.
Bennett died at his home in Greenwich on Thursday, Dec. 23.
The Caldor empire came to be while working with his late wife, Dorothy Bennett, who together turned an $8,000 military salary savings into a chain of discount department stores that spanned from the 1950s to the mid-1980s when he sold his 120 store business to Associated Dry Goods.
Raised above his father's grocery store located in Greenwich, on Steamboat Road, Bennett Grocers, with his two sis…
