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The J. L. Hudson Company (commonly known simply as Hudson's) was an upscale retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan.Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998), [1] was the tallest department store in the world in 1961, [2] and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States ...
The store closed January 17, 1983 (at the nadir of downtown Detroit's decline). After closure, Hudson's maintained its headquarters staff of about 1,100 in the downtown store. In May 1984, The J. L. Hudson Co. formally merged into the Department Store Division of the Dayton Hudson Corp., although Hudson's stores continued to carry the Hudson's ...
Founded in 1881 as a clothing store for men and boys in downtown Detroit, the Hudson's 25-story building stood as the world’s tallest department store until 1961.
Poris said there was a proposal at the time to demolish not just the Hudson's department store, but all of the buildings that line the east side of Woodward Avenue from Campus Martius north to ...
The developer, Contour Companies of Bloomfield Hills, is now looking to fill the upper floors of the old Hudson's with a 150-room boutique hotel. For the department store's lower floors, a market ...
Joseph Lowthian Hudson (October 17, 1846 – July 5, 1912), a.k.a. J. L. Hudson, was the merchant who founded the Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan.Hudson also supplied the seed capital for the establishment, in 1909, of Roy D. Chapin's automotive venture, which Chapin named the Hudson Motor Car Company in honor of J. L. Hudson.
A quarter-century ago, the Hudson's department store came down. A new skyscraper is going up in its place. Hudson's department store in Detroit was imploded 25 years ago
Donnelly was the last to be crowned at the Steel Pier. [3] In the talent competition, she sang the then-new ballad "To You" and the faster-tempo "Old Man Mose".After winning the Miss America title, she traveled across the United States making personal appearances.