Globe Shopping City: Difference between revisions

{{Image frame|align=left|caption=Total store locations, 1960-1979|content={{Graph:Chart|width=500|height=200|yAxisMin=0|type=line|x=1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979|y=0,1,3,3,4,5,9,13,14,16,17,21,23,23,25,26,28,27,26,1,1|yType=number}} }}The chain was founded in 1960 by United Mercantile president Stanley Danburg and executive vice president George Kamins. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of [[Danburg's]] Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s but felt there was need for a much larger discount store chain. Danburg and, Kamins, along withand four other executives toured the country for more than a year, studying every major discount store to get ideas for the new chain.<ref>[https://archive.org/download/news-article-houston-chronicle-published-as-the-houston-chronicle-november-24-1960-p-38/News_Article__Houston_Chronicle_published_as_THE_HOUSTON_CHRONICLE___November_24_1960__p38.pdf "Top Executive Tells How Globe Became a Reality"], [[The Houston Chronicle]], November 24, 1960, p. 4.</ref>