Steve,
Collector Paul Kauf.man gave me info many years ago that showed a department store of the same name formed in Ft. Worth, but that could not have originated until 1918 at the earliest and more likely in the 1920's. I do not believe the El Paso store, which seems to have existed only in 1915 and 1916, had any affiliation with the brothers who formed the Ft. Worth establishment, but will continue to dig. I stumbled on it through various searches that somehow started with Calisher's, the name of the store that preceded Everybody's, and then the rest was just looking at breadcrumbs.
Edited to add that those familiar with El Paso may know that the store eventually became a Newberry's.
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Last edited by nolemmings; 09-21-2014 at 12:00 AM.
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