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H. Leh & Co., typically referred to simply as Leh's, was a department store located at 626 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was of what was an outside mall structure called the Hamilton Mall in the Center City portion of the city.
30 cze 1996 · After 146 years, the Allentown-based retailer called it quits amid a troubled retail market and tough competition from large discount chains like Kmart and Wal-Mart.
19 maj 1996 · On the bleak winter morning of Jan. 3, 1994, John “Jack” Leh II stood among the easy chairs on the top floor of the downtown Allentown department store that his family had run at that...
Henry Leh manufactured large numbers of boots for Union Army troops during the Civil War, and records show he was the first shoe manufacturer west of Philadelphia. Leh's store was the first ready-made clothing store available in Eastern Pennsylvania.
9 sty 1994 · It’s 11:30 a.m., and the regular crowd has shuffled into the 1850 Room at Leh’s department store in downtown Allentown. There’s Frances Henry, a 72-year-old widow of Pennsylvania German descent...
23 lip 2022 · So, on April 25, 1850, a booming city like Allentown, population of 4,000, Leh felt was ready for it. Bringing his supply of goods to town by stagecoach and canal boat, he set himself up with a...
626 Hamilton St; the former H. Leh department store, one of the two competing stores in center city Allentown (the other being the now-demolished Hess's at 829 Hamilton).
