Stern & Company
840 Broadway, Camden NJ, 1928. This building housed the Pinsky Store for many years before Stern & Company opened here in 1950.
Stern & Company, a department store chain, opened up its thirteenth store in Camden NJ in 1950, at 840 Broadway, which for many years had been the home of the Pinsky Store, operated by Harry Pinsky and his family.
On June 1, 1950 the Pinsky Store reopened as the thirteenth store in the Stern department store chain, founded in 1897 by Louis Stern, Leon Levy, and Louis Schneider. Stern & Company remained open at that location into the 1960s.
New Camden Store; Orchids Presented to 1000 Women
Camden Courier-Post —
ORCHIDS WERE THE SYMBOL of the opening of the new Stern store today at Broadway and Spruce street, shown here with the manager, David L. Luber, well known to Camden shoppers. The store is one of a chain which was founded in Philadelphia in 1897 on Market street, not far from its present location at 712. As a special touch, the opening was being marked by the presentation of Hawaiian orchids to the first 1000 women entering the store, whether or not they bought anything. In further celebration of the opening, the new store will stay open tonight, Friday and Saturday until 9 p. m. Normally, it will remain open only Fridays and Saturdays until that hour. On other days it will close at 5.80 p. m.