Wallet Card at Loehmann's - and Billy & George!

Loehmann's - short for Chas. A. Loehmann Co., was a discount department store chain that started in Brooklyn in 1921 and grew to over 100 stores by the end of the 1990s. In 2014, the now-bankrupt chain closed it's last 40 locations, including this spot in Hewlett, NY. A variety of stores have been in the spot in the last eleven years, but I noticed that they've stripped down a lot of the stucco and other siding, down to the bare brick. On the side of the building this has exposed an old Chase A. Loehmann labelscar. As far back as 2007 Google Streets photos there was a different sign on the stucco, but a 1977 NY Times article mentions a script sign just like this one.

The store was built on the side of a strip mall, and the work on the back of the store revealed this sign. Apparently in the 1950s and 1960s this was a shoe store called Billy & George. Well before Martin and Steinbrenner!