With consumer goods growing scarce as the US fought World War II and with the stores' natural heir preparing to fight the Japanese in the southwest Pacific, Bloom Brothers was forced to go out of business in March, 1944.
With consumer goods growing scarce as the US fought World War II and with the stores' heir apparent, Ens. D. Dudley Bloom, USN, 21, preparing to fight the Japanese in the southwest Pacific, Bloom Brothers was forced to go out of business in March, 1944.