"unspecified field and worked as a salesman in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders decided to quit his job and invested his family's life savings into a store in the Springfield mall called ""The Leftorium"" specializing in products for left-handed people. In the fifth season episode, ""Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"", Superintendent Chalmers fires Ned Flanders, who has become principal after Skinner being sacked, only because he freely expresses his religious views in the school. However in Season 29, the Leftorium closes leaving Flanders unemployed, until he returns to"
"from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 13.9, and was the highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired. Ned invites the Simpson family to a barbecue party and announces his plans to open a store for left-handed people; The Leftorium. During the pulling of a wishbone, Homer, who has been constantly jealous of the material success of Ned and his family, wishes for The Leftorium to be a failure and go out of business. Homer frequently checks in on Ned to ensure that business is going poorly and is happy to see precisely that happening."
"be the next asset repossessed. Homer then regretted making this wish and the fact that he never told any of his friends who were in need of left-handed items about The Leftorium. As a result, he managed to get everyone he knew in town to shop at Ned's store; thus saving the store. The Leftorium has continued to thrive since. However, there have been episodes where Flanders mentioned the store does not do that well, such as in the season ten episode ""Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"", where Ned mentions that he purchased most of his possessions cheaply, and that the"
"When Homer sees left-handed citizens struggling with items made for right-handed people, he thinks about informing them about The Leftorium, but decides not to. Eventually the store does indeed close due to lack of business, plunging the Flanders' into debt and misery. Ned is forced to sell his possessions, and Homer gleefully buys many of Ned's things. Homer starts to regret what he did, but when he goes to return Ned's possessions, he finds Ned's house repossessed and the family living in their car. Homer wrestles with the guilt his wish has brought, and tells Ned to open the store"
"show rather prejudiced attitudes towards gays and people of religions other than Christianity. Ned's store ""The Leftorium"" first appeared in ""When Flanders Failed"". It was suggested by George Meyer, who had had a friend who had owned a left-handed specialty store which failed. There have been at least two occasions where Flanders was not voiced by Harry Shearer. In ""Bart of Darkness"", Flanders's high pitched scream was performed by Tress MacNeille and in ""Homer to the Max"", Flanders comments about cartoons being easily able to change voice actors and on that occasion he was voiced by Karl Wiedergott. ""The Adventures"
"business moved way downhill since ""Leftopolis"" moved in next door to it. In the episode ""Home Away from Homer"", Ned mentions that a recently opened, left-hand megastore, called ""Left-Mart"" (a parody of Wal-Mart) is threatening his business. A future episode reveals that Flanders has been reduced to running the Leftorium out of a mall cart, which he splits with a cosmetic saleswoman. In Season 29, the Leftorium finally closes for good, leaving Flanders unemployed; until he finds a new job as Bart Simpson's new teacher (substituting the void left by his deceased second wife Edna Krabappel). The writers had wanted"
"day tracking down a Leftorium customer in order to give him the extra change that he had forgotten to hand over. In ""Homer's Triple Bypass"", he donates a kidney and a lung out of the goodness of his heart to whoever needs them first. He also is a good neighbor to the Simpsons, regularly offering his assistance. Ned's dogged friendship inspires the loyalty of others; when his Leftorium shop specialized in items for left-handed people, appeared on the verge of bankruptcy shortly after it opened, Homer arranged a bailout with the help of many people in Springfield. Despite a meek"
"the rationlisation programme. William Lefevre William Lefevre was a department store located in Canterbury, and is now home to Debenhams. William Lefevre was born in Canterbury in 1847 and whose father was a grocer. After serving his apprenticeship with a draper in the Marylebone area of London, William returned to Canterbury in 1875 to open his own drapery business. William's family followed suit by opening drapery and wool business' in other parts of the city. By 1899 the business had stores in Sun Street, Mercury Street and Guildhall Street. William died in 1911 and his son Charles took over the"
"The Word Bookstore The Word Bookstore, or simply The Word, is an independent bookstore in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located in the McGill Ghetto downtown. It specializes in used philosophy and English poetry books. The bookstore was started by Adrian King-Edwards and Luci Friesen of McGill University in 1973 in their own apartment living room as an ""underground"" bookstore, with a photo of George Bernard Shaw to their front window. The couple, who had first met at McGill University, had spent the previous summer hawking paperbacks out of their VW van in Northern British Columbia, prior to the opening of the"
"business for left-handed people (the Leftorium) closes, leaving Flanders unemployed, and to Flanders return to Springfield Elementary School, as Flanders finds a new job as Bart Simpson's new teacher (substituting the void left by his deceased second wife Edna Krabappel). Many of the school faculty seem very bored with their jobs and do not try to help students, leaving them to unfulfilling futures. They also take full advantage of any-and-all time off that they have. Several of the teachers and staff smoke and drink in the staff room and in front of their students. In one episode, the teachers are"
"The Limited The Limited was an American clothing company that operated between the middle 1960s and the middle 2000s. After 2007, it became a brand, originally owned by the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, now owned by another private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Bella Cabakoff was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and moved to Columbus, Ohio as a toddler. At 21, she became the youngest buyer for the Lazarus department store chain. In 1951, after spending over 20 years with Lazarus, she and her husband Harry Wexner opened a women's clothing store named Leslie's (after their son) on State Street."
"in his book The New Age of Innovation. The Left Shoe Company unfortunately din't make it and filed for bankruptcy in 2016. Carter Clark from Essex in the UK is the curator. In the US the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy om May 10, 2016. In the UK it's in the process of liquidation since July 18, 2016. The Left Shoe Company The Left Shoe Company, previously Left Foot Company, is a made-to-measure male footwear manufacturer with offices in London, Los Angeles and in Helsinki. The company was founded in 1998 as The Left Foot Company. It was renamed"
"Leon Levine Leon Levine (born June 8, 1937) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He founded the Family Dollar chain of discount stores. Leon Levine was born to a Jewish family on June 8, 1937 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. The family actually lived in Rockingham, North Carolina but the town had no hospital. The family ran a small town store called The Hub. His brother Sherman and his mother ran the Hub until it closed in 1960. In 1949, when Levine was 12, his father died from a heart attack. The loss led him to become closer to his mother."
"of the local German Reformed congregation to his death. Herman Melville used Astor as a symbol of men who made the earliest fortunes in New York in his novella, ""Bartleby, the Scrivener"". The pair of marble lions that sit by the entrance of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street were originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, after Astor and James Lenox, who founded the library from his own collection. Next, they were called Lord Astor and Lady Lenox (both lions are males). Mayor Fiorello La Guardia renamed them ""Patience"" and ""Fortitude"" during the Great"
"Lewis Store The Lewis Store, also known as the Fielding Lewis Store, is a historic commercial building located at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in 1749, and is a two-story, front-gable, three-bay Georgian style brick store. The second story addition was built in 1808. The building was rehabilitated between 2000 and 2006. The first story consists of a ""sales room"" on the front and a ""counting room"" on the rear. The building functioned as a store until 1823, after which it was used as a residence. It was built by John Lewis and operated by him and his son, Fielding"
"his G.I. rations for other veterans' book allowances, quickly amassing a large number of books. He left his apartment door unlocked, so anyone could come and read the books whether he was home or not. With his own collection of one thousand books, Whitman opened his Paris bookstore in 1951 at 37 rue de la Bûcherie on the Left Bank. It was first called Le Mistral, but was later renamed Shakespeare and Company, after Sylvia Beach's earlier Paris bookstore (1919 to 1941). Beach, who visited Whitman's bookstore, is said to have called his shop the ""spiritual successor"" to her own."
"a selection of George Whitman's letters and journals written along his “hobo adventures” during the Great Depression. The kindness he received from strangers along the way inspired the founding ethos of the bookstore: ""Give what you can; take what you need."" The bookstore was a sanctuary for some twenty of its customers during the November 2015 Paris attacks. Notes Bibliography Further reading Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank. The first was opened by Sylvia Beach, an American, on 19 November 1919, at 8 rue"
"in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east of Paris. George Whitman George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated English-language bookstore on Paris's Left Bank. He was a contemporary of writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, as well as a lifelong friend of the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Whitman was born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States, and grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2006 Whitman was awarded the ""Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres"" medal by the French government for his contribution"
"gifts. In 1979, along with his younger half-brother David Bowman, Holmes opened a Los Angeles locksmith shop managed by Bowman and an attached used goods store called The Just Looking Emporium, named by Gebinini and managed by Schiller. However, because of Holmes' escalating drug addiction, which distracted him from buying inventory for the Emporium and siphoned its working capital, the Emporium ""close[d] its doors forever by the end of September 1980"". According to Schiller, ""David [kept] his part of the business open while John remove[d] our inventory and [sold] it all for coke."" Later, after Holmes' acquittal, he and Amerson"
"for one final day. He then tells all the left-handed residents of Springfield about The Leftorium, and they all travel to the store and buy things. It is implied that the increase in customers helps Ned keep the store open and get his house back. In a subplot, Bart begins taking karate lessons at Akira's karate school. On his first lesson, he finds that karate is quite boring, so he decides to skip each lesson in order to play video games at the mall arcade. Whenever he is questioned by his family and friends about the techniques he has learned,"
"Le Bon Marché Le Bon Marché (lit. ""the good market"", or ""the good deal"" in French; ) is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was the first ever modern department store. Now the property of LVMH, it sells a wide range of high-end goods, including food in an adjacent building at 38, rue de Sèvres, called La Grande Épicerie de Paris. A novelty shop called ""Au Bon Marché"" was founded in Paris in 1838 to sell lace, ribbons, sheets, mattresses, buttons, umbrellas and other assorted goods. It originally"
"has been translated from "" Georg Wertheim Georg Wertheim (February 11, 1857, Stralsund – December 31, 1939, Berlin) was a German merchant and founder of the popular Wertheim chain of department stores. Wertheim grew up in Stralsund. After being an apprentice at ""Wolff and Apolant"", Wertheim along with his brother Hugo, took over in 1876 their parents' (Abraham and Ida Wertheim) haberdashery, founded in 1875. The two brothers quickly brought new ideas into the shop: customers were allowed to replace goods, the price of a good was no longer debatable but reliable, and purchases were made strictly with cash. This"
"Lechmere Lechmere (; sometimes described as Lechmere's) was a New England retail store that closed in 1997. It had 24 stores located throughout New England, New York as well as a location in Metro- Atlanta, Georgia offering electronics and appliances. The chain began in June 1913 when Abraham ""Pop"" Cohen opened a harness shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When his three sons Maurice, Philip and Norman and daughter Nan entered the business in the 1940s, it evolved into a tire and automotive store and later into a consumer appliance store. Household goods, televisions, and other goods were added to the merchandising"
"Left Bank Books (St. Louis) Left Bank Books is an independent bookstore located at 399 N. Euclid Street in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is the oldest, independently-operated bookstore in St. Louis. It was founded by students in 1969 as a leftist collective to sell underground, counter-cultural, feminist, and anti-establishment books, newspapers, and magazines—-the first to do so in the St. Louis region. It was the first bookstore with its name in the United States, and the first exhibiting gallery for children's book illustrator Mary Engelbreit. Left Bank Books sponsors reading groups, book signings, author"
"business. In the 1920s the business took on a massive project by combining their Guildhall store with the Institute of Philosophical and Literary, the Theatre Royal & the Guildhall Tavern. The new store with amended frontage was opened in 1926 and designed by local architects Jenning & Gray, however parts of the original buildings can still be seen, including the Egyptian Windows from the original Institute building. It was during this time that the business was sold to Debenhams who continued to operate the business under the William Lefevre name until 1973 when the business was re-branded as part of"
"works, announcements, and posters naming Left Bank Books. Left Bank Books was the first and, for a time, exclusive exhibiting gallery of work by book, poster, and greeting card-illustrator Mary Engelbreit. Engelbreit hand drew announcements and invitations for her exhibits, as well as other advertising and promotional material for the store. She also painted small chairs in her designs for the store’s children’s book section. Engelbreit’s well-known 1985 illustration ""A Book is a Present You Can Open Again and Again"" was originally created as a poster to advertise Left Bank Books. The store's name and address appeared on the original"
"formed The Portable Bookstore in 1974 to sell books to members of the science fiction fan organization named after the fictional Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society. As they sold books at Westercon in 1976, Sherry Gottlieb, founder of A Change of Hobbit (then in Westwood, later in Santa Monica, California), suggested that they open a store in Berkeley. Gottlieb's store was known in fandom for its events—such as hosting Harlan Ellison in its window, writing a story—and Gottlieb offered the store's name to her Berkeley colleagues, so long as it was a little different. The"
"it may have been ordered shut because Beach denied a German officer the last copy of Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"". When the war ended, Hemingway ""personally liberated"" the store, but it never re-opened. In 1951, a new English-language bookstore was opened on Paris's Left Bank by American ex-serviceman George Whitman under the name of ""Le Mistral."" Its premises, the site of a 16th-century monastery, are at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, near Place Saint-Michel, just steps from the Seine, Notre Dame and the Île de la Cité. Much like Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, Whitman's store quickly became the focal point"
"reinvent their presence, becoming 2ndcity Studios. Robert Laidlaw Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand business man who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement. Laidlaw was born in Scotland, but his parents emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand when he was a young boy. He later studied at Otago Boys' High School. In Auckland he founded ""Laidlaw Leeds"", a Sears-type mail order catalogue for rural customers."
"Levolor Levolor (also doing business as Levolor Window Fashions) is a manufacturer of custom window blinds and shades, stock blinds and shades. The company was founded in 1914 in Hoboken N.J by H.K Lorentzen, (1888–1974) a Danish immigrant as a Die cutter left stranded while he came from China. Considered the Henry Ford of the industry who introduced standardization, vertical integration, metal manufacturing and assembly lines concept In 1993, Levolor was acquired by Newell (known today as Newell Brands). In July 2016, Levolor was acquired by Hunter Douglas, another custom window blind manufacturer. Levolor is headquartered in the Atlanta, GA"
"in the areas, or healthcare, education, Jewish values and human services. Currently he and his wife; Sandra P. Levine, are members of the Board of Directors and President and Vice-President respectively. Leon Levine Leon Levine (born June 8, 1937) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He founded the Family Dollar chain of discount stores. Leon Levine was born to a Jewish family on June 8, 1937 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. The family actually lived in Rockingham, North Carolina but the town had no hospital. The family ran a small town store called The Hub. His brother Sherman and his mother"
"corporate offices of Newell Rubbermaid and has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Consumers can purchase Levolor products from a number of major retailers including Home Depot, Lowe's, JC Penney's, RONA, and other independent dealers and stores. Levolor Levolor (also doing business as Levolor Window Fashions) is a manufacturer of custom window blinds and shades, stock blinds and shades. The company was founded in 1914 in Hoboken N.J by H.K Lorentzen, (1888–1974) a Danish immigrant as a Die cutter left stranded while he came from China. Considered the Henry Ford of the industry who introduced standardization, vertical"
"contribué à l'émancipation des ""indigènes,"" en les initiant aux produits manufacturés. Ainsi, les boutiques ""Au Chic"" du Groupe Hasson et ""La Coupole"" d’Henri Palacci, ouverts, à Léopoldville, vers 1946, vendent à tous et refusent toute forme de discrimination raciale. Leurs rapports quotidiens avec les colonisés distinguaient les Juifs des autres Blancs. Et lors des évènements tragiques de 1960, aucun Juif ne fut molesté par la foule en colère.""<br><br> Jewish merchants contributed to the empowerment of ""indigenous"" people by introducing them to manufactured goods. The shops ""Au Chic"" (Hasson Group) and ""La Coupole"" (Henry Palacci), opened in Leopoldville, around 1946, selling"