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Show Spragt So lit '- ' ; L' ' i 3 : - ' ? ' i . i " " - -v. J !. i I W. C. MOORE, new manager of Sugar House's newest store, the W. T. Grant Co. which holds grand opening a week from today. W. T. Grant Grand Even! Set The hanger-like W. T. Grant department store will conduct its grand opening one of the greatest great-est ever staged in Sugar House Thursday, Aug. 4, William C. Moore, manager, announced this week. Stocked from front to rear, and from right to left wth fresh modern mod-ern merchandise, the great business busi-ness enterprise will be No. 537 in the nation-wide chain that reaches from coast to coast. Some 50 employes will man the store which is the newest addition to the Sugar House Shopping Center, Cen-ter, a multi-million dollar outlay embracing nearly a score of new retail merchants. With 27,000 square feet of floor-space, floor-space, a gigantic warehouse upstairs up-stairs and with off-street parking on three sides, and built right adjacent ad-jacent to a spur D&RG railroad track, the W. T. Grant setup is one of the most enviable of any merchandising concern in Salt Lake valley. "We hope to contribute much to the business success of Sugar House and to participate fully and wholeheartedly in this community's com-munity's affairs" said Moore, a native of Maine and a manager of five or six years' service with the company in Massachusetts. Moore said visitors to the store will find it is indeed a "triumph of modern merchandising." Designed as four stores in one, it will fea- ture all the merchandise lines normally nor-mally found only in four distinct specialty shops: a fashion store, a dry goods store, a home-hardwares store and a variety store. Grant customers will be able to do all the shopping for themselves, them-selves, their families and their homes on one easy-to-get-around selling floor. "In short, we're offering the residents res-idents of suburban Salt Lake City the fastest, easiest shopping they have ever known," Moore said. To house this streamlined merchandising mer-chandising operation, the Grant Company has designed and built a brand new modern structure in corporating all the latest advances ad-vances known to modern retailing. Specially designed counters and fixtures will hold every Grant item within easy reach for quick selection selec-tion or leisurely inspection. All Continued on Pago 7 J Grant's has been in Salt Lake City since 1930. The downtown store at 241 S. Main street will join in the celebration of the opening open-ing of the new Grant's in Sugar House Shopping Center by also offering scores of sale items. they want. There is ho down payment pay-ment involved. A huge three day sale will mark the store's opening. Hundreds of outstanding values will be featured fea-tured throughout Grant's 34 departments. de-partments. Free souvenirs will be given away while they last. Opening Open-ing store hours will be from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Founded in 1906 by W. T. Grant in Lynn, Mass., the company has grown in less than 50 years to nearly 540 stores coast to coast Moore attributes this phenomenal success to the company's strict observance of its founder's dictum, "Not how much can we get, but how much can we give the customer." IV. T. GRANT GRAND EVENT SET Continued from page 1 the merchandise will be shown under day-bright conditions under the newest in fluorescent store lighting. Air-conditioning will assure as-sure comfortable conditions even on warmest days. Scientifically planned color schemes will not only provide a pleasant background back-ground but will also serve to segregate seg-regate departments. Parking facilities will be available avail-able for 1100 cars immediately adjoining the new Grant's. Moore said Grants famous credit service will be available in this new "park and shop" store. Participants Par-ticipants in this plan use credit coupons like cash for anything |