Zukor's was a U.S. chain of women's clothing stores, specializing in dresses. The company was part of a broader trend of dress shops that catered to middle-class and upper-middle-class women, offering stylish, ready-to-wear fashion at accessible prices.
Benjamin Zukor established the business in 1914 in New York City, starting with a modest shop that specialized in women's apparel. Around a year later, Zukor opened a second New York store.
West Coast stores that Zukor opened were in order: Seattle, c. 1927 Long Beach, California Oakland, California, c. 1929, 1311 Washington Street, expanded in 1934 at a cost of .
and between 1929 and 1934 in: Bellingham, Washington Portland, Oregon Sacramento at 812 K Street San Francisco San Jose, California San Diego Los Angeles (2 stores, including one at 611 S. Broadway, opened in February 1931, moving two doors down in 1940 to the H. Jevne & Co. Building at 601–5 S. Broadway) Spokane, Washington (1929, Mohawk Building, moved to the Jamieson Building in 1935. Closed c. 1967)
By 1934, the Oakland Tribune described the chain as a five-million-dollar "national institution" that had "served millions of patrons".
The chain opened its fourteenth West Coast store in Fresno, California in 1936 at 1018 Fulton Street at a cost of .
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