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Generations of holiday shoppers visited the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus every Christmas season until it closed in 1994. The decorated window displays were a cherished tradition ...
Sterling Lindner Davis (SLD) was a major department store in downtown Cleveland's Theater District which operated from 1845 (with the founding of Sterling & Welch) to 1968. [1] The retailer was primarily known for displaying the largest decorated Christmas tree in the state of Ohio, this tradition started in 1927. [ 2 ]
Higher-end department stores, once a fixture of urban commercial districts, emerged after World War II as a place for shoppers to browse, have lunch and visit in-store salons and service providers ...
Its flagship store, corporate office and warehouse complex occupied two blocks in downtown Detroit for almost 80 years. The store was a direct competitor of the J. L. Hudson Company and the Ernst Kern Company until Kern's closed in 1959. Crowley's and Hudson's were both noted for their lavish annual Christmas displays.
During the pre-Christmas shopping period, Herpolsheimer's operated the "Santa Express" miniature train on a monorail suspended from the ceiling of the basement in its downtown Grand Rapids store. When in operation as the City Centre mall, the space below the train served as a food-court and the train was run year-round, painted in a non ...
Dee Moore, 84, can't forget his mother buying him Buster Brown shoes at one downtown store with an X-ray shoe-fitting machine. The devices, in wooden boxes similar to an old radio console, were ...
Oct. 19, 1950: B.C. Hathaway, 6, and Linda McClellan, 4, show each other the gifts they received in a surprise package at Leonard’s Department Store’s Toyland.
The company was established as the Rike-Kumler company in downtown Dayton, Ohio in 1853. They would remain independent until 1959 when they joined the Federated Department Stores company, at which time the company owned the then 650,000 sq ft downtown store, a 280,000 sq ft service building, two warehouses, and the Miami Hotel. [6]