2nd and Main Looking North
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This image shows the corner of Second and Main looking North. Gimbel's store may be seen on the right.
This file appears in: Gimbel Corner
Gimbel Corner
You are now standing on the corner where one of the world’s largest department store empires began. Adam Gimbel was a Jewish man who came to the US from Bavaria (in what is now Germany) and arrived in New Orleans around 1830. At the age of…