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Mario Torres Gázquez was a Spanish businessman born in Berja who established a department store[1] and a shopping mall in Almería named Bazar Almería.[2]

It operated in the province of Almería since 1950s:[3] he opened a branch office in December 1948 in the ground floor of a ramshackle house, where in 1949 he sold radio receivers, G.A.C. bicycles,[4] Montesa motorcycles[5] and in 1954 the Derbi ones. In March 1957 he got the permission to build a ten-storey building with a basement which was located on Navarro Rodrigo street[6] in Paseo de Almería.[7][8][9] The branch office was opened in November 1957,[10] and it was finished between February and December 1968.[11]

In November 1957 he opened a new shop in calle de Ricardos.[11] He distributed products from Telefunken company,[12] between 1950 and 1958 he distributed Iberia Radio in Almería, and in 1958 he brought the first television sets in the province.[13][14] He also sold derbies for women,[15] pressure cookers,[16] electrical appliances (washing machines, vacuum cleaners, radio receivers, refrigerators, sewing machines), etc.[17] Between 1951 and 1952 he promoted Unión Deportiva Almería recruiting in Tercera División to climb to Segunda División,[18][19] and he collaborated with the radio program Coser y cantar.[11]

It was closed before 2008,[20] and nowadays it works as multi-family building with a basement, ground floor, nine floors and the attic.[21]

He got married with Carmen Guerrero Sánchez.[22]

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  1. ^ León, Manuel (2014). "La paradoja del comercio almeriense y los gajes del oficio". Anuario Crítico de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  2. ^ ""Almas de barrio", un libro de Eduardo del Pino cargado de viejas historias de Almería". Asociación de Periodistas (in Spanish). 19 December 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  3. ^ de Vicente, Eduardo (5 July 2019). "De 'La Llave' a muebles 'La Reconquista'". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  4. ^ Belmonte, Agustín (27 October 2013). "Aventuras en bici". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  5. ^ Bravo Morata, Federico (1978). La larga siesta de Dios. Fenicia. p. 75. ISBN 9788473160322.
  6. ^ Revilla, María Victoria (10 June 2019). "Los lienzos del ladrillo". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via PressReader.
  7. ^ "Bazar Almeria sa , Almeria". Axesor (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Bazar Almeria sa". Empresas de Andalucía (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  9. ^ "El Paseo de Almería". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). 18 August 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  10. ^ Vicente, Eduardo (10 July 2018). "La peluquería de Cayetano en la calle Ricardos". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via Blogspot.
  11. ^ a b c de Vicente, Eduardo (28 February 2018). "Sesenta años del 'gigante' don Mario". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via PressReader.
  12. ^ "Viajeros". Ecos de Sociedad (in Spanish). 28 August 1957. p. 54. Retrieved 15 December 2024 – via issu.
  13. ^ de Vicente, Eduardo (3 May 2022). "El televisor de la tienda de don Mario". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  14. ^ de Vicente, Eduardo (10 July 2024). "La radio Iberia del comedor". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via PressReader.
  15. ^ León, Manuel (14 July 2019). "El almeriense que vaticinó la llegada del hombre a la luna". La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  16. ^ D. Vicente, Eduardo (26 January 2016). "Los buenos años de la calle de las tiendas". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  17. ^ Martín del Rey, B. (1957). Guía ilustrada de Almería y su provincia (in Spanish). p. 364. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via studylib.
  18. ^ "Una afición en crisis permanente". Noticias Candil (in Spanish). 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via Blogspot.
  19. ^ Gómez Díaz, Donato (2004). "Política y fútbol: la necesaria fundación de la Unión Deportiva Almería en el decenio de 1940" (PDF). Materiales para la historia del deporte (2). Junta de Andalucía: 153–177. ISSN 2340-7166. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2020.
  20. ^ R. G.; Avance C. (23 August 2008). "Retrato de la Feria de 1947". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  21. ^ "IEE Bazar Almería". Protecal (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  22. ^ W. Sader (José Contreras Naveros). "In memoriam de Carmen Guerrero Sánchez y Mario Torres Gázquez". Gergal.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
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