The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Lily Jackson, American actress

* 1998 – Peyton List, American actress

* 1998 – Spencer List, American actor

* 1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1998 )

* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )

* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor ( b. 1922 )

* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )

* 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1926 – John Derek, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1964 – Trinity Loren, American porn actress and model ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer ( McClain Sisters )

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

* 1905 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Brandon Ratcliff, American actor

* 1920 – Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Browning Ross, American runner ( b. 1924 )

* 1998 – Ryan Newman, American actress

From 1992 up through 1998, American Stores consolidated operations and moved responsibilities of their division offices to their headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Although ' American Stores ' food divisions retained an operating presence in their geographical locations and other centralized marketing, merchandising and other staff functions were relocated between 1992 and 1998 from Oak Brook, Illinois to Salt Lake City to occupy the then-new American Stores Tower, pharmacy operations were relocated to Scottsdale Arizona with certain pharmacy systems-related resources continuing to operate from the Chicago area after being relocated to 3030 Cullerton Drive in Franklin Park, Illinois, the location that previously served as Osco Drug's divisional headquarters prior to its relocation to its new purpose-built office facilities at 1818 Swift Drive in Oak Brook, Illinois ' Windsor Office Park during the early 1970s.

After American Drug Stores ' move to Salt Lake City, Utah was complete in 1998, Osco's Oak Brook, Illinois 1818 Swift Drive headquarters was sold to the Follett Corporation.

In 1994, LACMA purchased the adjacent May Department Stores building, an impressive example of streamline moderne architecture designed by Albert C. Martin Sr. LACMA West increased the museum's size by 30 percent when the building opened in 1998.

With the acquisition of Hills Department Stores in 1998, Ames became the nation's fourth-largest discount retail chain behind Walmart, Kmart, and Target.

He appeared as the voice of " Mr. Opportunity ", spokesman of Honda commercials on TV and radio, the announcer for Buffalo Dick's Radio Ranch, and the spokesman for Lucky Stores, a West-coast grocery store chain, before it was acquired by Albertsons in 1998.

In July 1998 PC Flowers and Gifts merged with Fingerhut and Federated Department Stores ( Reference-Business Wire-March 31, 1999 ).

Kwik Save became part of the Somerfield group in 1998 when it and Somerfield merged, operating as a trading division of Somerfield Stores Ltd.

Proffitt's previously acquired them as a result of the Mercantile Stores / Dillard's merger in 1998, and briefly rebranded them as Proffitt's locations.

* 1998: ShopKo enters new markets formerly served by Venture Stores by buying up most of their former locations in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, and Iowa.

The company grew in Southern California with the 1998 acquisition of Harris Department Stores.

Mercantile Stores Company Inc. until 1998, was a traditional department store retailer operating 102 fashion apparel stores and 16 home fashion stores in 17 states.

In May 1998 Mercantile Stores was acquired by Dillard's of Little Rock, Arkansas, for $ 2. 9 billion.

The site was later sold to the British Steel Corporation, Babcock International and other concerns before in 1998 or 1999 being sold to Asda Stores, now part of the Wal-Mart chain of shops and stores.

K-VA-T Food Stores owns the Food City Distribution Center ( formerly Mid-Mountain Foods ), a distribution center K-VA-T helped form in 1974 and acquired full control of in 1998, Misty Mountain Spring Water, LLC, a producer of bottled water, as well as limited-assortment grocery stores named Super Dollar Discount Foods, and convenience stores named Food City Express.

1998 also saw Proffitt's acquire a group of 15 stores from Dillard's after its buyout of Mercantile Stores.

In 1998, Mercantile Stores was purchased by Dillard's, Inc., and the stores that were not closed or sold to other retailers were converted to Dillard's.

Mercantile Stores retained the Joslin's name and operating until 1998 when the purchase of Mercantile Stores and conversion to the Dillard's store brand was completed.

From January 1998 to January 1999, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the flagship Wal-Mart Stores Division.

Ayres division in Indiana, and in 1998 took on The Jones Store in Kansas City when May acquired that chain in the aftermath of the Dillard's acquisition of Mercantile Stores Co.

It was acquired by May Department Stores in 1998 after the Dillard's acquisition of Mercantile, and integrated into the company's Famous-Barr division.