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The Sample, also known as The Sample Dress Shop or The Sample Shop, was a family-owned, high end department store specializing in upscale ladies clothing and furnishings based in Buffalo, New York. The original store was established by Anne W. Bunis on Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo in 1928. The company started when Mrs. Bunis returned from a trip to New York City with a set of 48 "sample" dresses, which she in turn sold for $12.75 each. Expansion occurred during the early 1950s with stores at Lancaster, New York; Lockport, New York; Thruway Plaza in Cheektowaga, New York; South Buffalo at 2182 Seneca Street; and Downtown Buffalo at 554 Main Street, the former home of Flint & Kent. The Downtown Buffalo store closed in 1959. In 1961, a store opened in Amherst, New York and in 1969, a store opened at Seneca Mall in West Seneca, New York. In 1971, a store opened at Eastern Hills Mall, with another store opening up at the Summit Park Mall in 1972, and in 1985, a store opened in McKinley Mall in Hamburg, New York. The last store in the then 11-store chain opened in 1988 at Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, New York. In 1990, following the death of company chairman Maer Bunis, the company began a rapid descent into bankruptcy. On January 13, 1991, the flagship Hertel Avenue store closed.
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- ↑ "Violation of Pact Is Publisher's Allegation," Buffalo Courier-Express, December 12, 1935, pg. 14
- ↑ The Men of New York: A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of Citizens of The Empire State Prominent in Business, Professional, Social, and Political Life During The Last Decade of The Nineteenth Century, George Edward Matthews (1855–1910), George Edward Matthews & Co., Publisher (1898); OCLC 1209595
- ↑ "Hanged Himself From a Tree in His 0rchard; Adam Rinewalt, Well-Known Resident of Williamsville, Commits Suicide; Was a Sufferer From Melancholia," Buffalo Evening News, October 3, 1902, pg. 1