May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... deep-level stations have closed platforms:
Charing Cross tube station (for the Jubilee Line)
Holborn tube station (for the Aldwych branch of the Piccadilly ...