How CB2 came 2B --- History of Crate & Barrel

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1962... Crate and Barrel opens first store in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. 1967... Crate and Barrel mails its first catalogue. 1971... Crate and Barrel opens its first store in a major shopping center; suburban Chicago's Oak Brook Center. 1977.. Crate and Barrel opens in Boston; its first store outside of Chicago. 1982... Dallas opens; Crate and Barrel's first store in the South. 1985... the expansion heads to California with a store opening in San Francisco. 1990... Crate and Barrel's flagship store opens on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. 1995... Crate and Barrel enters the New York market with four stores, including Manhattan's Madison Avenue. 1998... Crate and Barrel partners with world's largest mail order company-Otto Versand of Hamburg, Germany. 1999... crateandbarrel.com launches. 2000... CB2 is unveiled on Chicago's North Side.