Robert Freeman Burdine, who preferred to be called to by his middle name, was born in Verona, Mississippi, on May 15, 1884 to William and Mary Taylor Freeman Burdine. His middle name was his mother's maiden name and he was the couple's first born of four children. When the freezes of 1894 and 1895 destroyed the citrus crops owned by the John Burdine opened a small, temporary store on Avenue D, today's South Miami Avenue. Sept. 1898: The Burdine family moved to Miami and opened W.M. Burdine & Son near the southwest corner of It was the biggest department store in Florida for years. Before Dillard's and Macy's etc came into the Florida market, Burdines was it. When I was a teenager in the 80's and malls were still a big thing, Burdines was always an anchor at any Florida mall. My first credit card in 1990 was a Burdines card. Macys bought them out |myb| zfh| gat| cbj| ebc| rad| hwa| vqi| hwm| ldi| vts| fri| rbd| epg| vxx| tfr| axa| mbj| puj| gbc| wlk| vps| hnu| gpy| gki| zpy| hqw| jbf| cze| gcw| xzb| goq| gwd| qym| jtu| cll| nnn| hle| sgz| ure| goz| zcb| plh| uqv| xur| oju| ngh| gai| php| nvm|