John A. Brown Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma



John A. Brown's downtown store occupied a number
of storefronts on Main Street in Oklahoma City.

The Store expanded over the years to the north
by occupying buildings on Park Avenue.


John A. Brown's last expansion occupied the
corner of Park Avenue and Harvey Street
in downtown Oklahoma City.
John A. Brown Company (1915)
211 W. Main Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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DOWNTOWN STORE DIRECTORY (300,000 sq. ft.)


Basement
Brown's Colonial Lunch Room • Soda Fountain
Brown's Basement Store

First Floor
Fine Jewelry • Costume Jewelry • Handbags • Leather Goods • Gloves • Accessories • Neckwear • Blouses • Sweaters • First Floor Sportswear • Cosmetics • Toiletries
Park Avenue China • Glassware • Fine Silver • Gift Shop • Housewares • Small Appliance • Fine Foods and Candy • Luggage • Notions • Stationery •Ace Shop Electronic • Cameras
Store for Men Men's Furnishings • Men's Sportswear •Men's Clothing • Men's Shoes • Brass Lantern • Boy's Shop


Mezzanine
Book Shop • Scouting Equipment

Second Floor
Town and Country Shop • Sportswear • Gallery Dresses • Misses' Dresses • Coats • Women's World • Miss Contempo • Apparel Shop Dresses • Apparel Shop Sportswear • Apparel Shop Coats • Oval Room • Fur Salon • Bridal Salon • Millinery • Lingerie •Loungewear • Sleepwear • Foundations • Junior Sportswear • Junior Dresses • Junior Coats
Park Avenue Beauty Salon • Photo Studio •Shoe Salon • Casual Shoes • Gallery Coats • Girls' Wear • Toddlers' Wear • Infants' Wear • Children's Shoes •Toys • Sporting Goods • Needle Art

Third Floor
Linens • Bedding • Bath Shop • Fabrics • Singer Center
Park Avenue Furniture • Sleep Shop • Lamps • Pictures

Fourth Floor
Park Avenue Televisions • Stereos • Records • Appliances • Unfinished Furniture • Magicolor Paint Center • Hardware • Garden Shop • Personnel • Cash Office • Credit Office • Executive Offices



BRANCH STORES


Norman
College Corner
West Boyd Street at Buchanan Avenue
4,000 sq. ft.
















Capitol Hill (March 5, 1948)
319 S.W. 25th Street
60,000 sq. ft.














Penn Square (1960)
N. Penn Avenue at NW 50th St.
130,000 sq. ft.
The Apple Blossom Room














Crossroads Mall (August 2, 1974)
150,000 sq. ft.






Tulsa (1976)
Woodland Hills Mall




Quail Springs Mall (1980)


















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6 comments:

  1. The Quail Ridge Mall location is actually called Quail Springs Mall, and yes that store along with the rest of the mall did Open in 1980, in 1985 Dayton Hutson then the parant company of Dillards, converted most locations in to Dillards while other stores (In the same mall location where there was already a Dillards.) were closed down, and in early 1986 Dayton Hudson sold these stores to Federated Department Stores for expansion of their Dallas based Sanger-Harris division, this lasted a year before they merged into Federated's Foley's division in January 1987, in early 2006 Federated announced that they had taken over May Department Stores (Who had acquired Foley's from Federated in 1988.), and convert all may stores in to Macy's in the fall of 2006.

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  2. Interesting later history of the store! However, Dayton Hudson never was the parent company of Dillard's.

    Bruce

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  3. Does any one can remember Lola Pritschow

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  4. Yes Lola Pritschow was my grandmother

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  5. I lived in Oklahoma City for 4 years, 1983-1987. Browns was one of the last independent department stores, and I loved shopping there. I remember when the stores became Dillards.

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  6. I worked there in the early 1970s. I sure miss the place.

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