Garlicks
Garlickswas a department store chain inSouth Africa.
John Garlick started his first store on May 3, 1875, on the corner Bree and Strand Streets, in the central business district ofCape Town.In the 1880s, Garlick expanded with branches in the Transvaal, inJohannesburgandPretoria,and inKimberleyin the northernCape Province.[1][2]
In 1892 the Cape Town store was replaced with a far grander store inAdderley Streetat Exchange Place, across fromCape Town railway station.It had lifts (elevators), electric lights throughout, and automatic fire sprinklers. A few years later, Garlicks built South Africa's first steel-framed skyscraper, one of nine stories and the tallest building in Cape Colony at the time, and which had the first escalators in what is now South Africa.[1] The company would come to have branches inCavendish Square,Cape Town's first large suburban shopping centre, a branch in Johannesburg'sCarlton Centre,Africa's tallest building, opened in the early 1970s[3]as well as branches in other major cities of South Africa.[4]
The last Garlicks department store closed in Cape Town in late February 1993.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ab"From one Cape store to establishments in every major centre".Cape Times. 16 October 1981.RetrievedJuly 5,2020.
- ^Nash, Dallas (9 August 2017)."Garlick dead".Botswana Guardian.Retrieved5 July2020.
- ^"Carlton Centre (brochure)"(PDF).1970.Retrieved28 February2021.
- ^"Garlick's Department Store", Artefacts
- ^Oliver, Lenore (26 February 1993)."Garlicks going, going... gone".The Argus.Retrieved22 January2021.
