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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.
Horne's Christmas tree is still in Pittsburgh even though the store isn't. Department store windows along Midtown Manhattan's iconic Fifth Avenue still stun and dazzle, drawing crowds of tourists ...
Miller & Rhoads' suburban stores continued to grow, but the downtown store's sales were generally stagnant with the exception of the Christmas season. In 1987, following its own ill-fated buyout by Campeau Corp., Allied sold Miller & Rhoads to Philadelphia developer Kevin Donohoe and store management, who began to renovate stores and plan a ...
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.
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 ...
Kresge was the last of Newark's department stores to remain independent, and its customer loyalty was fierce. During the Christmas selling season, Kresge's operated a monorail ride around its toy department, and its Breakfast With Santa sold out early each season. [3] In the 1940s the firm opened a multi-story parking garage, one block from its ...
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 ...
In 2000, the tree was relocated once again to the rooftop of Rich's Lenox Square mall store, in the Buckhead community, located north of the downtown and the midtown districts. Federated began a merger of the R.H. Macy's department stores with Rich's in the early 2000s, with the remaining Rich's stores being renamed Rich's-Macy's. On January 1 ...