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Athletic Gath & Chaves (established in May 1918 and based in Virrey del Pino and Av. del Libertador). C.A. Harrod's activities included football, tennis, rugby, bocce, and pelota paleta. C.A. Gath & Chaves' sports included football, rugby, tennis, swimming, and artistic
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Lorenzo Chaves and Englishman Alfred Henry Gath (arrived in Buenos Aires with his family in 1866 and devoted to livestock management) met at "Casa Burgos", another department store located on Cangallo and Florida, in 1873. On 7 July 1883 they founded "The London Horsiery de Gath &
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Gath & Chaves opened a new building on
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building was opened just in front of the Sede
Central, on Florida n° 232. It sold women's clothing and named "Anexo señoras". Both buildings were connected by an underground passage. In those years G&C also opened stores in cities of
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undergrounds, being the most expensive of Buenos Aires. The design was inspired on "Le Bon Marché" and "Lafayette Galeries" of
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gymnastics. Both clubs merged on 22 November 1921 to form the current institution.
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that appeared in the late 1980s in Argentina. The name
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stores in Paris, and another big stores in London".
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