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==Early life and education== Price was born in The Bronx in New York City, the son of Samuel and Bella Price, [[Russian Jews|Jewish]] immigrants to the United States from [[Minsk]] (Belarus), in the early years of the 20th century.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403336.html Washington Post: "Price Club changed America's shopping experience" By Peter Eisner] December 15, 2009</ref> The family relocated to San Diego in the early 1920s. Price graduated from [[San Diego High School]] in 1931, attended [[San Diego State University]] in 1932, and earned his undergraduate degree (in philosophy) and [[Juris Doctor]] degrees from the [[University of Southern California]] in 1936 and 1938, respectively. By 1938, he had married his girlfriend Helen Moskowitz; they eloped to [[Las Vegas]]. Price was admitted to the [[State Bar of California|California Bar]] in November 1938.<ref name=WashPost>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403336_2.html| title = Price Club changed America's shopping experience| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]| author = Peter Eisner| date = December 15, 2009| accessdate = 2011-07-23}}</ref> He founded a firm which merged to become [[Procopio Law]] (known at the time as Procopio, Price, Cory, and Schwartz) where he worked until 1954.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title=Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary The FedMart Yearsβ1954 to 1975 |url=https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/v56-4/v56-4.pdf |journal=The Journal of San Diego History}}</ref>
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