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A 1963 DIspatch photograph of the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus decorated with holiday lights. One of the light displays formed a Christmas tree around the Lazarus water tower on ...
Changing times, changing shopping trends lead to changing traditions. By the 1960s, '70s and '80s, Longstreth said, department stores, like the downtowns that once held them, were changing.
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
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 ...
Today's Special is a Canadian children's television program produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario, originally broadcasting 120 episodes from 1981 to 1987. Much of the series was set in a department store, based on Simpson's then-flagship location in Toronto. Some store sequences were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store ...
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]
Here's a nostalgic look back at what earned these iconic department stores their place in history and what's happened to them since. Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. ...
Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporium.