Foreman & Clark

{{Short description|Departmental store chain}}

Foreman & Clark was a department store chain headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States.City of Los Angeles, Office of Historic Resources, [http://www.preservation.lacity.org/node/452 Newsletter, July 2009]. Founded in 1909, the chain had 90 stores by 1957,{{Cite web |url=http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/images/dt6n.asp?krequest=subjects+contains+Foreman%20Clark%20and%20Lakewood |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-08-09 |archive-date=2011-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728082031/http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/images/dt6n.asp?krequest=subjects+contains+Foreman%20Clark%20and%20Lakewood |url-status=dead }} from California to New York,{{cite book |title=Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea |volume=3 |first=John Steven |last=McGroarty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA914 |pages=914–915 |year=1921 |publisher=American Historical Society }} and closed in 1999.{{cite news| url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20051111/foremanobit11m/businessman-always-dressed-to-the-nines | work=The Seattle Times | first=Tan | last=Vinh | title=Businessman always dressed to the nines | date=11 November 2005}}

The chain was known for placing stores above street level, where rents were cheaper. Foreman & Clark began as a men's store, in 1909 on Third and Main Streets in downtown Los Angeles. By 1920 it owned three factories, in New Jersey and New York; and stores in San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, Chicago, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. All the stores were upstairs.

A Foreman brother owned a chain of 14 Foreman and Clark stores in the Midwest. Headquartered in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN.

Living Relatives of the deceased business: Eric Foreman, Clare Foreman, Christian Foreman company