The Buffalo News from Buffalo, New York • 16

Page A 16 The Buffalo NewsSunday September 28 1986 Bargain Hunters ind Treasures as Gimbels Closes lagship Store By BETHANY KANDEL Associated frets NEW YORK Clothing racks in Gimbels department store were mostly empty on its final day of business Saturday and the glitzy costume jewelry that once filled the glass display cases was going for a dollar a throw After 76 years in Herald Square the legendary Miracle on 34th Street competition with store was over The Gimbels chain was clos ing its flagship store after years of dwindling sales A branch in Man hattan also closed Saturday Developers plan to convert the stores into offices and apartments In its prime the Gimbels chain had 36 stores in metropolitan New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Milwaukee But the other stores ei ther have been bought out by other retailers or sold for redevelopment Other Manhattan stores also are troubled will close its 34th Street branch in ebruary and will vacate its prime location next door to Blooming sometime next year Analysts have blamed the clos ings on the failure to adapt to changing markets competition from specialty stores and discount ers and soaring real estate values that make selling out more profit able Saturday at Gimbels Tim Klein found the going out of business sale the answer to decorating his home even though it strained his finances glad the store is closing be cause I afford all the bar said Klein a 29 year old ac tor His almost daily visits to the store during the last few months of clearance sales have enabled him to furnish his apartment on a limited budget he said His final tally: an $800 6 foot up holstered couch he bought for a pal try $43 a $900 fold out sofa bed for $350 five matching wingback chairs originally $1000 for $50 two sets of silk curtains worth $150 for $38 lamps bowls and dozens of in expensive Christmas presents for family and friends All he needed was a little glue and some elbow grease to fix a few broken legs and chipped corners has made a Christmas never he said doing without for years this will make my living conditions like par Dolores ox rummaged in a bin full of slightly bedraggled wigs and found a long brunette one reduced to $4 Her arms were already full of $1999 video game cassettes selling for $1 and plastic couch covers for the same price bought some fantastic things she said sorry this is the last Yet she added see such a large chain go out of business is very scary The city is losing quite a lot of taxes and all pay for it in the As a scattering of customers scooped up the few remaining items in the store saleswoman Kate Kir chein 67 shook her head in disgust said goodbye to us or thank she said the cold est thing And worked here for 28 years had to learn that we were E1 I Xi NX 1 Associated Press Shoppers hunt for last clay bargains in New York City's Herald Square Gimbels going out of business by reading it in the she said been living on rumors for weeks Our nerves are After a few vacation while she receives severance pay Mrs Kirchein will begin looking for another job Steven Cohen person nel manager said 60 percent to 70 percent of the 2000 employ ees already have found other jobs His office will stay open for at least another month to help the others prepare resumes and train them for interviews lyst from Hartford Conn eyed a row of gilt edged mirrors trying to decide if he was getting a bargain I bring it home and I like it in he said lot of people are going to miss it Cohen said was like Rick Barnes 27 a financial ana store is part of our cul he added famous from the movie on 34th But it looks like out of mira Nurse Held In Probe of AIDS Death Associated Press SANTA MONICA Calif A nurse was held without bail Satur day in the death of an AIDS patient who was given a potentially fatal injection on the orders of a tele phone caller posing as a doctor The patient a vice president at the William Morris talent agency survived the injection a week ago but died Wednesday in St Hospital of complications from ac quired immune deficiency syndrome unrelated to the injection The nurse Hal Rachman 39 was arrested riday and was held without bail for investigation of murder said Sgt Russ Martin of the Santa Monica police 1 has also been booked for (investigation of) grand theft forgery and forgery of a credit card in connection with the theft of large sums of money belonging to the vk tim and the Bank of Map tin said The sergeant said Rachman had cared for the victim Ed LebowitzJ 49 but he did not know whether he worked for St Officials of St refused to divulge if Rachman was a current or former employee hospital spokesman Armen Markarian said Saturday The hospital was not noti fied of the arrest he added Martin reading from a news re lease was not able to say why Rachman was being held in a mur der investigation even though doc tors say the injection did not cause Lebowitz's death A man claiming to be doctor had phoned St late Sept 20 and persuaded a nurse to give 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