Mabley & Carew

Mabley & Carew Department Store was a prominent department store in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The store traced its roots to 1877, when Detroit merchants C. R. Mabley and Joseph T. Carew, en route to Memphis, were stranded in Cincinnati by a late train and wound up going into business in the heart of what was then a booming river city.

Cincinnati's landmark Carew Tower was home to the Mabley & Carew department store from 1930 to 1960, when the business was purchased by Allied Stores. Eventually the store moved the store across Fifth Street into what had been Rollman's Department Store.

In 1978, Dayton, Ohio, based Elder-Beerman department stores purchased Mabley & Carew. All stores, including the Fifth and Vine Street location, were eventually converted to the Elder-Beerman name.

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*cite news |author=Greg Paeth |last=Paeth |first=Greg |url=http://www.cincypost.com/2003/01/09/elder010903.html |title=Goodbye, Elder-Beerman |work=The Cincinnati Post |publisher= E. W. Scripps Company |date=2003-01-09 |accessdate=2007-03-02 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041210002329/http://www.cincypost.com/2003/01/09/elder010903.html |archivedate= 2004-12-10