Ads For Other Manhattan Stores in the Sunday News

Wertheimer’s department store was way uptown at 617 W.181st near Broadway in Washington Heights.

Blumstein’s at 230 West 125th Street in Harlem advertised Easter specials from its pet shop, including cocker spaniels marked down to $19.98 from $35, baby chicks at six for 79 cents, and canaries for $3.98. Among Blumstein's clothing offerings were women’s Eisenhower jackets at $3.98, below the ceiling price of $5.98. Blumstein's had been the target of a major boycott in 1932 which forced the store, which had a largely African American clientele, to hire black employees. By 1943 the store had a black Santa at Christmas.

Electrolux vacuum for 12.95 could be found at the NY Vacuum Exchange at 326 E. 149th. Three rooms of furniture could be purchased for $269 at Dreyers on Third Avenue between 124th and 125th. Ace Baby Carriage was on Broadway & 201st.

Castro offered a sectional sofa of “pre-war custom-built quality” at 131 W. 21st (6th and 7th). Sporting goods store Modell's advertised Army surplus available at 280 Broadway at Chambers Streets, with other stores at 198th St., 204 Broadway, and 243 W. 42nd.

Edward O’Toole Co. claiming to be New York’s leading religious goods store, was at 65 Barclay Street for rosaries, medals and plaster saints. Barclay Street, home of St. Peter's, the first Catholic parish in the city, was home to a number of ecclesiastical supply shops.