| In 1923, the Plaut family sold their department store
to S. S. Kresge for $17,000,000. During it's heyday, the Kresge
Department Store was a stop on one of the Newark Subway Lines. Today,
there is only one line left of the Newark City Subway. All others,
including the one going to Kresge's are sealed. A recent descent
into one by New Jersey Transit officials revealed that the storefront
Kresge's maintained underground is still intact (except for the
broken windows) with mannequins, wooden display cases and sale signs.
For more information on this subject, see the books used for this
page:
"The Enduring Community" by William B. Helmreich
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