Sanger Harris Department Stores

 

Sanger-Harris was a department store chain from 1961 to 1987. It was formed by Federated Department Stores in 1961 from two Dallas chains, Sanger Brothers Dry Goods, established in 1868, and A. Harris and Co., founded in 1887. The firm merged with the chain Foley's in 1987, and eventually folded into Macy's.

In 1965 the company built a new downtown Dallas store Pictured above) to replace the flagship stores of the two companies and, so the business legend goes, turned down the opportunity to move into a new shopping center called NorthPark Center.