nitram67 
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No restaurant or TV business involved here.You could buy yourself a lunch here, though food service was not the main aspect of my company. I incorporated before WWI began.
Reply #10501. Nov 18 12, 6:36 PM
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paulmallon
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Conrad Hilton?
Where you in the hotel business?
Reply #10502. Nov 18 12, 7:43 PM
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Jakeroo
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Aaron Montgomery Ward?
Reply #10503. Nov 18 12, 8:14 PM
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nitram67
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No hotels. Jake's in the right department so to speak. I died only 5 years after the name currently used by my company went into effect.
Reply #10504. Nov 18 12, 8:40 PM
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Mommakat
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Was it Sam Walton?
Reply #10505. Nov 18 12, 9:11 PM
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nitram67
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Not Wal-Mart, this store under it's current name opened in the same year though. The original store I founded opened 50 years previous to that.
Reply #10506. Nov 18 12, 9:40 PM
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Mommakat
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Ronald H. Macy?
Reply #10507. Nov 18 12, 9:48 PM
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nitram67
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Not Macy. One letter of my name is used the current name of the company. This has locations only in the U.S & territories so many of those non-americans may be not as aware of it as those in the USA.
Reply #10508. Nov 18 12, 9:59 PM
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Jakeroo
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Sebastian Spering Kresge?
Reply #10509. Nov 18 12, 10:41 PM
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nitram67
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You got Jake. S.S. Krege mart became Kmart still the 3rd largest retailer in the US I believe. He was just 7 months short of 100 yrs. old when he died.
I wanted someone to get it before I called it a night, back to work tomorrow.
So, who the heck are you?
Reply #10510. Nov 18 12, 10:47 PM
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Jakeroo
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Well, I didn't realise Canada was a U.S. Territory LOL! (we used to have Kresge stores when I was a kid (my grandma sometimes took for lunch there - which was quite a big deal in those days lol) and we had K-Marts until about 10 years ago when they all closed - the franchise up here having been purchased previously by the Hudson Bay Company).
Anyhoo, next up is a dead French explorer.
Reply #10511. Nov 19 12, 5:14 PM
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Mommakat
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How about Samuel de Champlain?
Reply #10512. Nov 19 12, 5:29 PM
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Jakeroo
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sorry, not Champlain, although I can certainly understand why you chose him : ) I deliberately picked someone who didn't have much to do with Canada (didn't want to show too much favouritism - giggles).
Reply #10513. Nov 19 12, 7:02 PM
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paulmallon
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in that case how about Louis Jolliet ?
Reply #10514. Nov 19 12, 7:16 PM
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paulmallon
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is it about golf?
Reply #10515. Nov 19 12, 7:18 PM
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paulmallon
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oops wrong board...again
Reply #10516. Nov 19 12, 7:19 PM
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Mommakat
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How about Jacques Marguette?
Reply #10517. Nov 19 12, 7:31 PM
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Mommakat
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Or perhaps La Perouse who had a lot to do with early exploration in Australia?
Reply #10518. Nov 19 12, 7:51 PM
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Jakeroo
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nope, none of those. He died in the the 1900s
Reply #10519. Nov 19 12, 7:57 PM
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tobyone
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Edouard Foa?
Reply #10520. Nov 19 12, 9:59 PM
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