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American home improvement store chain
Channel Home Centers (formerly known as Channel Lumber Company and often simply known as Channel) was a chain of home-improvement centers that was based in Whippany, New Jersey.2 It ceased to exist in 1994.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Channel Home Centers (formerly known as Channel Lumber Company and often simply known as Channel) was a chain of home-improvement centers that was based in Whippany, New Jersey.2
A 1975 New York Times profile traced the company's origins to a lumber business started in Newark in 1922 by two Russian Jewish Americans, Abraham Levy and Morris Charin (1887–1963). A 1990 article in the same publication, and other company releases, however, have put the founding date at 1908. Louis L. Slater (1913–1987), son-in-law of Levy, opened the first retail outlet in Newark, New Jersey in 1948.
From Wikipedia’s article on Channel Home Centers, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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