Joske's

Joske's flagship store at Alamo and Commerce Streets in Downtown San Antonio. This postcard is believed to depict the store before the 1909 expansion.
A postcard believed to be depicting the downtown flagship store after it was expanded in 1909, but before the Art Deco facade was added in 1939.

Joske's, founded by German immigrant Julius Joske[1] in 1867, was a department store chain originally based in San Antonio, Texas. In December 1928, Hahn Department Stores acquired the company along with the Titche-Goettinger department store of Dallas, and three years later Hahn became part of Allied Stores. Allied was taken over by Campeau in 1986, and Campeau in turn sold the Joske's chain in 1987 to Dillard's.[2] All Joske's stores were then quickly converted into Dillard's locations.

  1. ^ "Julius Joske biography". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2014-12-17.
  2. ^ Hansard, Donna Steph (1987-04-14). "Dillard to buy out Joske's". The Dallas Morning News.