Re: What Now-Defunct Local Stores Do You Miss?

Anniecamp · ‎03-12-2010

There are so many. Ward's, Grayson's, Burt's, Bakers, Mary Jane's, Young Quinlan, Brauns, Marshall Field's.

adelle38 · ‎03-09-2010

On 1/30/2014 Opurrra said:
Bonwit's in NYC

I loved Bonwit's and B. Altman and A&S in Brooklyn. My small hometown had a great local owned department store that closed in 1994 after nearly 100 years. I loved Dey Brothers in Syracuse and Sisson's in Binghamton.

It's always a victory for me when I remember why I entered a room.

adelle38 · ‎03-09-2010

also Chappell's in Syracuse and Hislop's in Auburn, NY.

It's always a victory for me when I remember why I entered a room.

Luv2Decorate · ‎03-12-2010

Hudson's, Wurzburgs, Herpolsheimer's. - All Department stores, now gone...

colliemom4 · ‎09-08-2010

I remember Grant's. Also miss Mervyns. I used to shop there a lot.

halfpint1 · ‎03-10-2010

May Co,Broadway, in a mall. Mervyns I could walk to. All the dime stores.

moonstone dunes · ‎11-06-2011

I miss the variety of stores there used to be: when I was growing we could go to Billy Blake and Grants, Woolworth's and then Woolco and later Great Eastern and Caldor. Just about every store had a pet department. Fish and parakeets! Remember the happy sound of chirping yellow and green birds!

When I moved to NE, there was Fisher's Big Wheel, Stuarts, Touraine, Zayre's, Bradlees and Filenes, Jordan Marsh and the original Filene's Basement with that skinny and scary wooden escalator that took you into the second lower level of the basement...a firetrap!

None of the stores were open on Sunday (blue laws in NE). But you would get the sale flyers with the papers and pore over them for the weekly specials.

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

Strawbridge & Clothier

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

In Philadelphia: Horn & Hardart's cafeteria with the coin slot dispensing dessert windows, Gimbels, Strawb ridge & Clothier, Snellenburgs, Lits, and fountain at SunRay Drugstore.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

september · ‎03-09-2010

Mervyn's was one of the first stores I discovered when I first moved to California, and I shopped there a lot. In Walnut Creek, there was a Mervyn's that was exclusively a children's store, and this was one of the primary places I would go to, to buy clothing and shoes for my kids. I also bought home goods at the main store, and I'm still enjoying a lot of those purchases today.