Fowler, Dick & Walker

[1][2] They started business as a very small dry goods store in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1879,[3] occupying space in another establishment at 120 South Main Street.

[9] Another Fowler's opened in 1975 in the Oakdale Mall in Johnson City, close to Binghamton, but the main store on Court Street continued to function.

A branch store was opened in the Laurel Mall in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, which Fowler, Dick and Walker also developed.

Fowler, Dick and Walker celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1979 and then was sold first to a local entrepreneur and then to Boscov's.

In Binghamton by 1980, Fowler’s had gone through several corporate owners,[11] and the parent company declared bankruptcy.