Uncle Bill's was a chain of stores in the Greater Cleveland area. It was founded in 1955 by Sidney Axelrod as a discount store. In 1961, the store added clothing and furniture to become a full discount department store.
The store catered to young 1960s consumers, filling the economic spaces previously held by downtown department stores.
The store was sold to Cook United (then the Cook Coffee Company) in 1961.
References
- ^ "Business, Retail". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. 11 May 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- Klein, Richard (Fall 2014). ""Let's Go Shopping at the Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy". Cleveland Memory. 25: 18, 196. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
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