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Stock Code BON01 |
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Certificate dated 7th June
1946 for 20 shares of common stock of par value $1.00
each. Issued to
Carlisle & Jacquelin, with the printed signatures of
Barney Ruben, President and Mr. Cohen, Treasurer of the
company. Attractive vignette at top of certificate.
Ornate red border.
Certificate
size is 20 cm high x 30.5 cm wide (8" x 12"). It will be
mounted in a mahogany frame, with gold inlay, size 31 cm
high x 39 cm wide.
The certificate is
shown unframed as all items are mounted upon
order.
A similar certificate
is also available with a blue border, dated 16th January
1951. Certified owner is Shearson, Hamill & Co.
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About This Company
Founded by Charles Bond in Cleveland, Ohio, Bond Stores
Inc. became the largest retail chain of men's clothing in the United States,
best known for selling two-pant suits. In 1933, company president Barney S.
Ruben moved the manufacturing center of Bond Clothes from New Brunswick, NJ
to Rochester, where he spent his youth and got his start in the clothing
industry with Fashion Park. By 1936, Bond Clothes had outgrown its factory
in Rochester, prompting a trade with Levy Brothers & Adler-Rochester, Inc.
for their larger, more modern facility. Still more growth forced the
company to add an annex to that building, and by 1938 Bond Clothes had
become the largest employer of textile workers in Rochester, employing over
2,500 people.
In 1945, an even larger facility was built on North
Goodman St., and Barney Ruben predicted Bond Stores Inc. would be the
largest clothing manufacturer with the largest factory in the world,
employing thousands more workers. Unfortunately, by the late 1940s, the
clothing industry in Rochester was beginning a steady decline, as
manufacturers were starting to move to other parts of the country, where
labor was cheaper. As a result, employment in the clothing industry dropped
dramatically, and Bond Clothes was never able to fully occupy this vast new
building. After nine years, the facility was sold to General Dynamics Corp.
and Bond Clothes returned to its previous factory. Despite the growing
decline in employment and manufacturing, Bond Stores Inc. was able to remain
in Rochester until 1979, when the factory was finally closed.
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