May Department Stores
From The Matrix
May Department Stores were founded in 1877 by David May in Leadville, Colorado, moving to St. Louis, Missouri in 1905.
Mary Livingstone was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Today, the May company does business under a variety of different names:
- After Hours
- David's Bridal
- Famous-Barr
- Filene's
- Foley's
- Hecht's
- Kaufmann's
- L.S. Ayres
- Lord & Taylor
- Meier & Frank
- Priscilla of Boston
- Robinsons-May
- Strawbridge's
- The Jones Store
