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Show Thorn McAn Opens New Store In Sugar House Thursday - Today R Fallon, president of the shoe company with stores in more than 400 cities, said: "Salt Lake City is one of the most important retail shoe markets mar-kets in the country. Industry projections pro-jections indicate that people here will puchase more than a million pairs of shoes at a total retail value of close to seven million dollars this year. "Sugar House is also a rapidly expanding community with a need for new shopping facilities with adequate parking accommodations. We hope to make many new friends on Highland Drive." The first Thorn McAn store opened in New York City in 1922. Today there are more than 740 Thorn McAn stores in forty-three states. Sugar House will have a new source of shoes for men, women and children when a Thorn McAn family shoe store opens today (Thursday, March 28) at 2188 Highland Drive in Sugar House district. The new store will be operated by a local company, Sugar House Thorn McAn, Inc. Ira L, Donahoe will manage the new family shoe store, according to Harold Atkinson, district director direc-tor for Thorn McAn in this area. Donahoe comes to Salt Lake City from a Thorn McAn family shoe store in Phoeniz, Ariz. He is married, mar-ried, with six children. The new store will be Thorn McAn's first family shoe store in, the city. A Thorn McAn shoe store for men and boys only is located at 25G S. Main Street. There are two other Thorn McAn stores in the State. : The exterior of the store is distinguished dis-tinguished by the famous Thorn McAn signature sign. The store can be entered from Highland Drive and from an adjoining parking park-ing area for sixty-one cars. Hun-drds Hun-drds of shoe styles for men, women and children, plus handbags, hosiery hosi-ery and other accessories will be offered. The interior utilizes distinctive but harmonizing colors to distinguish distin-guish the men's and children's departments de-partments and the women's salon. Each section has a color scheme of its owi i, extending to the soft carpets tnd upholstered chairs. Walls in the women's salon and children's department are of haw-thorne, haw-thorne, w .th chairs of yellow. The men's department has chairs of copper red with walls in sunflower yellow. The storage basement of the new store has been constructed around the underground canal that runs through the district and is triangular trian-gular in shape. According to Mr. Atkinson, this Is the only Thorn McAn store in the country with a canal in the basement. All customers during the first three days, through Saturday, March 30, will receive gifts with shoe purchases. Each child entering enter-ing the store will receive a Thorn McAn balloon. Commenting on the opening of the new family shoe store, Lester |