Community Chat

[I am still oxox]

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@Tori3569 wrote:

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@Estellee wrote:

Lord & Taylor was the most painful of all @ahoymate 

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You're not kidding.  I practically lived at the one in Eastchester NY.  

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So did I, the front is now empty and the back is Saks Discount. I have not been to the whole shopping center in many years

[candys mine]

W.T.Grant  they put out The BEST Christmas Albums every year.

Lechmere 

Zayre's and the Blue Light Specials.

Ames

Bradlees

Filenes And, taking the escalater down to Filenes Basement in Boston.

Jordan Marsh   sold yummy blueberry muffins too.

Woolworths

S.S.Kresges  Before they turned into Kmart.

[on the bay]

@Harpa,

One Christmas my father took my sister and me to Wanamaker's and I do remember the beautiful window.

I'd never seen anything so grand. And the inside with the Christmas tree reaching up to the high ceiling.

I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen for Christmas.

Then we stopped to get a bag of hot chestnuts from a vendor on the street. I remember it looked like a little metal cart. They were so hot and it was so cold I just remember it was good. A wonderful memory.

I can still picture and feel it all.

[matty liz]

real elevator operater too.  i forgot the doorman andv elevator, thanks

[Lovestheshores]

Some I've listed may have merged with Macy's but I still listed them anyway since they're technically not the same.

Abraham & Strauss

Bullocks

Burdines

Goldwaters

Martin's

I Magnin

Marshall Fields

Filene's Basement

Lazarus

Ohrbachs

E.J. Korvettes

FW Woolworth

Bonwit Teller

Century 21

Loehmann's

[on the bay]

We had a Ben Franklin's too in our small town. It did have everything didn't it?!

One of my daughter's used to love to get a gummy worm that they had at the counter and 2 for extra special times. 

My mother worked at the post office right next to it when she had her first job as a teenager. She said she made something like 25 cents was it for a week? I can't remember but it was very little.

[UpNorthGorgy]

@Jacie  And Donaldsons near by. The Christmas Windows were so nice at Daytons. We used to have coffee at the Mayflower. My Great Aunt shopped in the Daytons Oval Room for her nice fashions. We lived 100 miles away but shopped there often especially for sales like Daytons Daisy Days in summer. 

[felixmom]

@candys mine ....

I knew you were a Bostonian when you mentioned Lechmere Sales and Bradlees! I grew up in Somerville (Davis Sq.) We had:

Parke Snows

Gorins

Cummings

Bargain Center

Rexall Drug

Grants

Woolworths

Kresge's

Robert Hall

So many great memories!

[Mombo1]

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@lynnie61 wrote:

@mildoo  @Mombo1    I grew up in Pittsburgh and still live here 63 years later.  We truly did have wonderful Christmas shopping memories in Pittsburgh.  I even remember a monorail in Gimbels toy department.  Probably mid 60's.  My sister and I often went on the bus to light up night, and shopped the department stores downtown.  All three stores had great Christmas windows.  

Do you remember when KDKA used to broadcast from Horne's windows for Children's hospital?  Remember Farkelberry tarts?  Such great memories that kids today don't really have a chance to experience.  It makes me sad these beautiful stores are gone.  

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@lynnie61   Oh my...I do remember the monorail at Gimbels.  And the KDKA broadcasts.  I had to laugh at you mentioning Farkelberry tarts!   I think the thing that means the most to me it that those were "simple times"....We didn't have a lot....but we could not have been happier with the experiences we had.     When I took my grandkids to Pittsburgh, they were amazed at the sites in the city.  My oldest granddaughter even wrote an essay for school about her most memorable place to visit....Pittsburgh.  Warmed my heart.  

[frenchie]

In Massachusetts....

Jordan Marsh, Filenes, Ames, Rich's, Caldor, Bradlees, Grant's, Woolworth, Fashion Bug, Hit or Miss, Ann & Hope, Lechmere, KMart, Zayer's, Lerner's, the Dress Barn, etc.