The Zorensky Brothers Store on Easton Avenue

1948

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Storefronts

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1940-1949

The Zorensky Brothers store located at 6301 Easton Avenue, which is now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, 1948. Hyme Zorensky, who immigrated from Russia in 1906, founded the store in 1913. Hyme's sons, Louis and Milton, worked in the store and in the 1950s and 1960s, the two developed the Crestwood Plaza Shopping Center and Northwest Plaza Shopping Center. Hyme's grandson, Mark Zorensky would later develop the Saint Louis Galleria. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Mark Zorensky.

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