Mack and Company advertisement, 1897Mack and Company was a downtown department store; it was located where the Parthenon is now.
- Mack and Company: The Nieman-Marcus of Ann Arbor April 1982.
Mack & Company was Ann Arbor's counterpart to downtown Detroit's big J.L. Hudson store. It sold everything from furniture and carpets to cosmetics and lingerie, from dry goods to insurance, from health food to postage stamps. It had its own pharmacy. And it even had its own bank. Weakened by the Depression, Mack & Company finally closed in 1940.
Mary Vanek with other milliners in her department at Mack & Company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mary Vanek was in charge of this department and went on a month long buying trip to Paris as well as a two week visit to New York for the same purpose in January and February of 1912.
