This Notebook of the Trade Museum tells the evolution of a very particular type of trade: clothing warehouses, a way of approaching the dress business that will involve novelties not only in dealing with customers, but also in the direction of the business and in relations with employees. Although A...
The Printing and Bookshop of Núñez, opened in 1900, is preserved until March 14, 2007, when it is closed for reasons beyond the control of its owners. Refounded repeatedly on a Libreco business in force at least since the eighteenth century, in its last stretch of life, which corresponds to the owne...
Someday we will have to explain in detail the importance of Peñaranda in the commercial history of Salamanca. The Cervantes Bookstore or Tejisa are clear examples of this. And also the ARA Warehouses founded in the early forties by the peñarandino Don Ramón García Santana. This Notebook of the T...
There was a time when in all the cities of Spain a bakery called La Mallorquina was opened to the public. La Mallorquina de Salamanca was founded by Don Santiago Bermejo Pollo at the beginning of the 20th century. Bermejo Pollo had until the sixties a street with his name where he built his can...
This one that you have in your hands, reader, is the first title of a collection that aims to honor the traditional Salamancan trade. Each of the numbers that form it will be monographic about a specific business and will have been chosen, among other reasons, to illustrate the history of our city...
The business to which this sixth issue of the Notebooks of the Museum of Commerce is dedicated is still remembered by several generations of Salamancans because it was open until the eighties of the last century in the central square of Poeta Iglesias (where Orejudo is now located). But this was the...
Metalúrgica del Tormes, the company was founded by the Pérez Conesa family in 1917, was together with those of Maculet and Moneo, one of the three large industries dedicated to foundry that Salamanca has had. This delivery responds to the research and writing of María Ordóñez and Mark Zoder and dea...
The Museum of Commerce has published a new issue of its collection dedicated to former companies in the capital and province. This issue, number 19, is a monograph on the Coliseum theater-cinema, still present in the collective imagination as it has given a (popular) name to one of the entrance an...
The Basilio Redondo factory was founded in 1948 and finally closed its doors in July 1984, after almost forty years of production. It was located in Chamberí, a district of Salamanca in which factories and warehouses had proliferated since the end of the 19th century, in the surroundings of the rail...
This new Notebook on the History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca is about the figure of the businessman Jaime San Román. Among its businesses is the foundation of Niloplex or Ledesa, relevant companies in Salamanca in the second half of the 20th century. It was written by his son, Jorge San...
The Museum of Commerce decided to dedicate 2014 to the hotel industry of the city, a strategic business branch in the Salamanca economy closely related to tourism. This new booklet from the collection on the history of trade and industry serves as a culmination to the activities focused on this to...
THE HERMAND OF TRADERS. AN ACTIVE PRESENCE OF SALMANTIN TRADE IN SAINT WEEK Javier Blázquez This issue 14 is about a commercial initiative of great importance in the social life of the city: the history of the Brotherhood of Merchants. Heir to old trade union initiatives, the Brotherhood of Merch...
With this notebook the Museum of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca wishes to pay tribute to one of the most relevant companies that the province had during the last century, TEJISA, which would have completed eighty years of business validity in 2013. With an exclusive dedication to the world of fo...
Toys are as old as man. But there have not always been specialized stores whose exclusive selling business was toys. For this to be possible, the purchasing power of families had to be increased, something that would not happen in Salamanca until the 20th century. This notebook tells the story of a...
The eleventh Journal of History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca focuses on a company dedicated to jewelry and filigree work, with such a long tradition in our province. Luis Méndez Artesanos, the current name of the commercial firm that occupies the publication, has its roots in the Sierra Sal...
The Barrio de Mirat, legacy of a Salamancan industrialist, is the title of the tenth installment of the collection that, on the history of commerce and local industry edited by the Museo del Comercio. Two years ago this institution had the opportunity to access the business documentation kept by Mir...
The elders still remember the Centenera brothers, Agustín and Cipriano, who ran a bookstore in the Plaza de los Bandos until the end of the eighties of the last century. Unique for their physical appearance and protagonists of multiple anecdotes, they are characters rooted in the urban mythology of...
The history of the Bomati family in our city begins in the mid-19th century. Since then and until the Civil War its members were active citizens of this small provincial capital that, at the beginning of the last century, barely exceeded twenty-five thousand inhabitants. In its beginnings the name...
Since the end of the 19th century the Plaza Mayor has changed its commercial epidermis on several occasions. Santiago Jewelry, with its original facade, has the flavor of the most traditional shops in the city. It has been able to maintain itself for eighty years adapting to the changes of its...
The commercial history of the confectionery La Madrileña begins in Zamora Street although, before the beginning of the 20th century, it is already open to the public in the Salamanca agora. And in that same place it has remained to this day, without giving symptoms of fatigue despite being, for d...
The number 22 of the collection edited by the Museo del Comercio dedicated to the history of shops and industries with tradition, in Salamanca, has as its protagonist the Cordón Jewelry. Jewelry has been, for centuries, a flourishing bouquet of commerce in the city. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, in...
Number 27 of this collection is dedicated to shoe dealer Antonio Lorenzo Bahía (1880-1952) nicknamed ‘el Gallo’. However, the period of time they collect their lines exceeds that of the protagonist's own life, extending from their ancestors to the present day. This extensive activity allows us to co...
Pablo García was one of the oldest commercial enterprises in the city. Founded in the 19th century, it continued during the next century run by César Álvarez Núñez and, later, by his sons César and Julia Álvarez García, until the dawn of the 21st century when it closes to the public. This trade h...
For several generations of Salmantinos, Paulino is a name associated with the city's trade. Synonymous with prestige, novelty and also luxury, its historical trajectory was linked to that of its location, the Plaza Mayor. But Paulino was also a company that crossed the limits of Salamanca to set...
In 1954, the Metalúrgica del Tormes moved from Calzada de Medina to Avenida de la Aldehuela forming part of the complex of S.A. Mirat. Surely many Salamancans remember the building that housed the metallurgical, located in front of the old provincial prison -now Da2- until its demolition in the eig...
