Community Chat

[4kitties]

These closings make me so sad.........😢

[bikerbabe]

Fewer stores with good customer service, organized and attractive plus a STRONG online presence.

[hippiechick7897]

I had never even heard of them until they were a sponsor on Project Runway for a few seasons.

[GCR18]

Lord and Taylor has been on a downward spiral for years.  Sad to see.  They were a great store at one time.

[Foxxee]

Oldest department store in the country...opened in 1826.  

[lynnie61]

@golding76   I found that department store museum website several years ago.  Pittsburgh lost several stores in the past 30-35 years. So many wonderful childhood memories.  Gimbels, Joseph Horne’s, Kaufman’s.  Really sad.  Anyone interested it covers all department stores from all over.  Really interesting facts.  Very good memories.

[Mersha]

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@lynnie61 wrote:

@golding76   I found that department store museum website several years ago.  Pittsburgh lost several stores in the past 30-35 years. So many wonderful childhood memories.  Gimbels, Joseph Horne’s, Kaufman’s.  Really sad.  Anyone interested it covers all department stores from all over.  Really interesting facts.  Very good memories.

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@lynnie61   I grew up in Pittsburgh and remember them all so well.  It was so much fun to go to downtown Pittsburgh as a child and see their windows at Christmas.

My first job was a sales position at Gimbels.

So sad to see them all go.

[FancyPhillyshopper]

Oh, how I will miss Lord & Taylor!  

They truly were the "Dress Address" and I have bought so many beautiful things there.

Yes, I miss all the Pgh. department stores as well and our Philly legends--John Wanamaker and Strawbridge & Clothier.

The retail world has been spun upside down, but I will always have wonderful memories of shopping in department stores!

[Trinity11]

Probably one of my favorite dept. stores, I still remember the holiday window displays when we used to take the kids into the city at Christmas time. They had a few different restaurants in their flagship store and through the years, I often shopped there. My first prom dress was from Lord and Taylor and I remember in the Ridgewood/Paramus store they used to have a dessert cart in the restaurant that my children loved and also the finger sandwiches. So many wonderful memories too numerous to post about here but I will truly miss Lord and Taylor...

[on the bay]

@FancyPhillyshopper -

My father took us to Wanamakers to see their Christmas display.

It was one of the most beautiful and magical scenes I've ever seen. I'll never forget it.

The most glorious huge tree decorated in the center of the store that reached to the ceiling, and every where we looked, some wonderful decoration or wreath and music.

We bought actual chestnuts roasting on the street. They came in a little paper bag and I felt like we were in a scene from Miracle on 34th street (even though that was New York lol!).

I feel so lucky that we got to see that. 

I loved Philadelphia.

My grandmother loved Woodies as she called it. My mother loved Lord and Taylor-she was and still is very classy and elegant. I somehow did not get those genes.

What great stores.

Also a salute to Benjamin Franklin-the most exciting five and ten cent store around back then.