This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published December 05, 2012 and can be found here.
For the past few days we've been doing some holiday window shopping at the old Sibley's and McCurdy's department stores. "But, WAIT! What about B. Forman's?..." you say? Well, I searched around a bit, and though I wasn't able to find many photos of window displays from B. Forman Co., fear not... I've got something you might like. Newspaper ads from December 18 - December 25, 1929! Don't say I never gave you anything...
Democrat and Chronicle, December 18, 1929...
Democrat and Chronicle, December 20, 1929...
Democrat and Chronicle, December 22, 1929...
Democrat and Chronicle, December 25, 1929...
About B Forman Co.
Department Store...
B. Formans's was incorporated in 1912 and operated a store at 46 Clinton Avenue . The founder's son, Maurice Forman, later took over the business, expanded it and attracted fame by co-developing the Midtown Plaza with Gilbert McCurdy and moving the store into the plaza. McCurdy's and Forman's both closed in 1994.