Charles Anson Bond, whose name was chosen for its market value and meaning left Cleveland for Columbus, Ohio where he opened a branch of the company.

[1] During the 1930s and 1940s, it became the largest retail chain of men's clothing in the United States, best known for selling two-pant suits.

The Rochester facility was later sold to General Dynamics and is now occupied by Bausch and Lomb contact lens manufacturing.

In 1948, Bond renovated the entire building with ultra-modern interiors under the direction of designer Morris Lapidus.

The building has most recently been redeveloped by the Paratis Group as a commercial / residential complex known as the "372 Fifth Avenue Loft.

[9] Starting in 1980, the building was a dance club called Bond International Casino, notable for hosting a concert by The Clash in 1981.

Bond's built its nine-story[10] Los Angeles flagship in what was then the city's primary shopping district, at 640 South Broadway in 1939.

[11] That flagship is now the Pavo Real Jewelry Center, but the large Bond sign still runs down the vertical length of the building.

In Washington, D.C., the local flagship store was at 1335 F Street, NW, in the heart of the downtown shopping district.

[15] Outlets in suburban Maryland operated at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Prince George's Plaza in Hyattsville (opened 1959, closed ca.

Designed in a high concept art moderne style in Cleveland at Euclid Avenue and East Ninth Street in 1946/7.

The structure used the site's sharp angle to its advantage by creating a tower crowned with windows facing inbound Euclid Avenue traffic".

Between 1948 and 1954, Bond Clothes operated a massive sign on the east side block of Broadway between 44th and 45th streets in New York's Times Square.