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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 ...
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
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.
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.
Hudson's Bay (French: La Baie d'Hudson), also known as The Bay (French: La Baie), is a Canadian department store chain. It is the flagship brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest and largest continuously operating companies in the world.
A pin-back button or pinback button, pin button, button badge, or simply pin-back or badge, is a button or badge that can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism. This fastening mechanism is anchored to the back side of a button-shaped metal disk, either flat ...