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- Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California-based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1948 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. The chain had over 24 stores throughout Southern California from San Diego to San Francisco before it was forced to close in 1985. In a 2001 interview in Los Angeles Magazine, co-founder Hyman Fink described selling "everything from handkerchiefs to fire hydrants to motorcycles to live Mexican monkeys" in his stores. The product mix offered in the stores is best described as eclectic and had included home decorating items, cookware, dining ware, food, clothing, electronics, live plants, and furniture. Many items were one of a kind and no one knew what would be in the stores the following week. A 1960 article in the Los Angeles Times described the store as "a pioneer in new and distinctive merchandising techniques" that "long specialized in decorator items from abroad" that included "original Italian oil paintings, native African sculptures from Kenya, and contemporary teakwood furniture from Denmark". The company sometimes describe themselves as a chain of "decorator-style department stores". Woman's Wear Daily called the chain a "serendipity" department store. (en)
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- store closures; most locations sold toCircuit City (en)
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- 24 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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- store closures; most locations sold to Circuit City (en)
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- Los Angeles, California (en)
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- home decor, imports, dining ware, clothing, furniture, electronics, artwork, tropical plants, live monkeys, imported food (en)
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- Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California-based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1948 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. The chain had over 24 stores throughout Southern California from San Diego to San Francisco before it was forced to close in 1985. (en)
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