Gimbel's Corner

ID: 2319 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: 2006
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Gimbel's Corner

This image shows the Gimbel's buildings shortly before they were destroyed by a fire.

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By Knox County Public Library
You are now standing on the corner where one of the world’s largest department store empires began. Adam Gimbel was a Jewish man who came to the US from Bavaria (in what is now Germany) and arrived in New Orleans around 1830. At the age of…