Pizitz Building

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Pizitz Building

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The Pizitz Department Stores got their beginning in the late 19th century. On encouragement from his wife, Louis Pizitz moved from Swainsboro, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama. Believing he would lose everything in Birmingham and would have to move back to Swainsboro, he would soon make it big. After immigrating from Poland just ten years earlier, he would find himself living out the American Dream in Birmingham....

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Pizitz Building Construction in February 1925

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excellent
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