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07-31-2021 06:03 PM
I'll list stores while growing up in San Antonio. I recognize a lot of stores listed here since I've lived almost everywhere in the country.
Dept stores-
Joske's
Rhodes/changed name to Liberty House (I Magnin stores)
Other type stores-
Kresge's
Woolworth
Winn's
GC Murphy
FedMart
Solo Serve
Handy Andy grocery stores
Handy Dan home improvement store
07-31-2021 06:22 PM
In the Chicago area we had a fabulous clothing store, Chas A. Stevens.
07-31-2021 06:33 PM
I remember many of these stores. Also Hills Dept Stores and Mervyns.
07-31-2021 06:40 PM
@DearPrudence I had forgotten about Chas A Stevens. Loved that store and OGs and Chandlers shoe stores.
07-31-2021 06:44 PM
Stores I remember from my time living in the Seattle area: Bon Marche, Jafco, Fredrick & Nelson, Lamont's, Nordstrom Place Two, Pay'N'Pak, Pay'N'Save, Ernst-Malmo, Chubby & Tubby, Prairie Market (you grabbed a grease pencil as you came in & marked the price on what you wanted, before putting it in your cart), Eagle Hardware.
Flaky Jake's had the best burgers.
07-31-2021 06:52 PM - edited 07-31-2021 06:56 PM
I remember Higbee's in Ohio. Also I remember Sealfon's in Ridgewood, New Jersey. My daughter used to love the penny candy in the children's dept. and I loved that they used to wrap everything free of charge. Many a gift I gave from that store especially at Christmas.
Bailey Banks and Biddle Jewelry store.....
Filene's in the Palisade Center, New York.
07-31-2021 07:18 PM
@caroln242 OMG, I'd forgotten about the "going steady" class ring wrapped with angora yarn. As host Courtney K would say, "how fun!" Thannks for reviving the memories from what my Gen Z friend would call the days of yore.
07-31-2021 07:55 PM - edited 08-01-2021 07:46 PM
@Flatbush wrote:I remember almost all of these stores.
One of my first part time jobs, when I was in high school, was in the Woolworth on 34 th Street in Manhattan. It was right across the street from Macy's.
I worked on the second floor and was in the ribbon department. I learned how to add prices in my mind very quickly and accurately. Took me at least an hour on the train to get home to Brooklyn!
I don't remember the Woolworth on 34th St. - but I shopped at Macy's often. I went to the Woolworth on Utica Ave., Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
07-31-2021 07:56 PM
@aubnwa01 wrote:In SoCal, there was a dept. store called May Co. Also, we had Zody's, The Broadway, Bullock's,White Front, JJ Newberry, The Akron, Licorice Pizza (a chain of record stores), Kresge, Ohrbach's.
I used to go to May Co. on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles --- I remember The Broadway and Bullocks.
07-31-2021 08:57 PM
@kathie66 wrote:In New York about an hour north of NYC we had
White's -Department Store
Robert Hall -Department Store
Howlands -Department Store
Shopwell- Grocery Store
Walbaums- Grocery Store
Masters-Department Store
Caldors
Jamesway
A&P Grocery Store
Pathmark Grocery Store
@kathie66 wrote:In New York about an hour north of NYC we had
White's -Department Store
Robert Hall -Department Store
Howlands -Department Store
Shopwell- Grocery Store
Walbaums- Grocery Store
Masters-Department Store
Caldors
Jamesway
A&P Grocery Store
Pathmark Grocery Store
@kathie66 oh yes White! it was a big store in the middle of Nowhere. Middle Island (LI)
i forgot about Billy Blake, another big dept. store
and Robert Hall!! ugh the radio jingle meant back-to-school shopping
Schoolbells Ringing Children Singing
Back to Robert Hall Again
Mother Knows for Better Clothes
It's Back to Robert Hall Again!
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