Curtain and Bath Outlet Internet store is the latest extension of one of the pioneers of discount retailing in America. In 1953 Irwin Chase and his father Martin and opened their first store in an old textile mill in Cumberland and Rhode Island. The building and store were named after a ship the Ann and Hope which was lost at sea off of Block Island and Rhode Island in 1806. Curtain and Bath Outlet Internet store is the latest extension of one of the pioneers of discount retailing in America. In 1953 Irwin Chase and his father Martin and opened their first store in an old textile mill in Cumberland and Rhode Island. The building and store were named after a ship the Ann and Hope which was lost at sea off of Block Island and Rhode Island in 1806.