| 1919 |
Hyman Capin moves his family from Columbus, NM to Nogales, Arizona
working as a tailor for the U.S. Army posts in the area. |
| 1920 |
Hyman opens a tailor shop inside Camp
Steven D. Little making uniforms and other clothing. |
| 1922 |
The Capin family purchases the S. Leeker
Dry Goods store Nogales, Arizona.
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| 1924 |
The family purchases a second Nogales
retail store, LaVille de Paris.
|
| 1925 |
Three sons and two sons-in-law join
Hyman Capin in expanding the company
to include the Boston Store in El Paso,
Texas and the I. Schwarz Department
Store in Texarkana, Texas.
|
| 1930 |
The S. Leeker Dry Goods Store name
is changed to The El Paso Store.
|
| 1949 |
Capin Mercantile Corporation is
founded.
|
| 1956 |
The El Paso Store in Nogales is
changed to Capin's Department Store.
|
| 1960 |
The family opens the Parisian Department
Store in Nogales, Arizona.
|
| 1967 |
Family members purchase Robinson's
Hardware Store in Nogales, Arizona
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| 1968 |
Capin's Mercantile Corporation expands
to include a duty-free warehouse to
ship liquor, cigarettes and personal items
into Mexico.
|
| 1969 |
Capin's Mercantile Corporation opens
second duty free warehouse in San Luis
|
| 1970 |
Family members open the Americana
Motor Hotel in Nogales, Arizona
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| 1971 |
Capin's expands to Douglas, Arizona
with a store called Capin's. (This became
a Factory 2-U store in 1992)
|
| 1973 |
Parisian store expands to Douglas,
Arizona.
|
| 1978 |
Two Capin's stores open in Phoenix, AZ.
One closed in 1980 and the other was
changed to a Factory 2-U store in 1982
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| 1982 |
The company registered the Factory
2-U name and started expanding
the chain outside Nogales. By 1992
Capin's had 26 Factory 2-U stores in
Arizona, 4 in New Mexico and one
in El Paso, Texas.
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| 1991 |
Capin's Mercantile Corporation builds a
new Corporate Headquarters and
warehouse in Nogales, Arizona at West
La Quinta off Mariposa Ranch Road.
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| 1995 |
Capin's Mercantile Corporation is sold
with some family members retaining
ownership of Robinson's Hardware stores.
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