Biography of Abe Goldstein, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Abe Goldstein and his son, Joe, 28 years ago, in 1926, bought the remaining
stock and fixtures of a business known as L. Barnett on Front Street and opened
a store that would become one of the finest in Eastern Arkansas. Eleven years
later, his father, Abe, moved to Memphis in 1937 after retiring, and Joe changed
the store to strictly an exclusive ladies' ready to wear from a department
store. In 1949, he moved to the present location on Washington across from
Stevens Funeral Home from the Front Street location, now known as the Ford's
Food Center which had been opened after changing to a ladies' store in 1937. He
and his wife, the former Miss Minnie Silverstein, of Louisville, Ky., run the
store now known as Goldstein's Ladies and Misses' Ready-to-Wear. Mr. Goldstein
was born in Covington, Tenn. During World War I, he served overseas in France
with the 39th Machine Gun Company. The have three sons; a daughter with two
grandsons.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas