Re: remember department stores ?

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

Broadway, May Company, Buffums and Bullocks were the big department stores in southern CA when I was growing up. None of these stores had more than three floors in my town. Santa used to have his chair in one of the large windows at the Broadway. Speakers were set up so the parents and onlookers could hear what the children asked for. A picture was taken but it wasn't the focus of talking to Santa like it is now.

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

@Shelbelle wrote:
Anyone remember Lerner's Dept Store in the PA area, it was owned by Kathy Levine's grandparents.

@Shelbelle

Do you know if they had stores in other states? We used to have Lerner's in Denver & it was a great place for us teens to shop in the 60s. They had the trendy knockoffs at prices that were easy on our allowances. :-) Not to mention the fact that we outgrew them about the same time the fad passed.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

@VCamp2748 wrote:
@Shelbelle wrote:
Anyone remember Lerner's Dept Store in the PA area, it was owned by Kathy Levine's grandparents.
@Shelbelle
Do you know if they had stores in other states? We used to have Lerner's in Denver & it was a great place for us teens to shop in the 60s. They had the trendy knockoffs at prices that were easy on our allowances. :-) Not to mention the fact that we outgrew them about the same time the fad passed.

You are thinking of Lerner Shops as I mentioned earlier, not a dept store.

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:
The dept. store we went to when I was little had elevator operators.

@YorkieonmyPillow

Yes! I remember riding it with a store employee when I got "lost" in the Denver Dry Goods Store. She took me to the office & gave me a Little Golden Book about nurses to amuse me while they sought my mother. They let me keep the book; it had real Bandaids in it! I also recall being quite fascinated by those vacuum tube canisters that the used to send cash around to different registers. Sort of like the ones that are now used at bank drive-ups.

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

@tansy wrote:
Broadway, May Company, Buffums and Bullocks were the big department stores in southern CA when I was growing up. None of these stores had more than three floors in my town. Santa used to have his chair in one of the large windows at the Broadway. Speakers were set up so the parents and onlookers could hear what the children asked for. A picture was taken but it wasn't the focus of talking to Santa like it is now.

And Robinson's................I really miss that store. Dillard's comes close, tho.

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Another new name Sue · ‎03-11-2010

We still have department stores, but they don't carry the variety of merchandise they used to have. Remember when they sold fabric?

Anyone else remember when the day after Christmas was the BIG shopping day, everything on sale? My mother and I used to shop until we dropped on Dec. 26. It was so much fun. (Except the year we took my husband.)

DJP · ‎03-09-2010

My mom and I always went to Hess's in Allentown, Pa. It was a beautiful store especially at Christmas. We would also eat in the Patio restaurant when they had models walking through. You had to have the strawberry pie!

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

I remember my grandma going for corset fittings at Huffings in CHGO

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SoX · ‎03-15-2010

@hovis wrote:
If anyone is from the Chicago area they will surely remember Marshall Fields downtown on State St. It was just beautiful at Christmas. I remember going there with my mom and having lunch in the English Tea Room and the huge Christmas tree that went through the middle of the room. Even when the store wasn't decorated for Christmas it was always so much fun to go there. One floor was just purfume. Another floor was just china. And it went on and on. I don't remember how many floors the store had but there was no other store like Marshall Fields.
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Oh, how I miss Fields! Most of my furniture is from there. My girlfriends and I had lunch in the Walnut Room once a month for years. There wasn't a week that went by that I didn't stop in for something ... my very favorite store of all time!

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

I remember them because my mom worked in the jewelry departments of several of the BIG name ones, in our city, most of her life. My last job, for a couple of years before I joined the US Army, was a Department Store.

Then the "all-in-one" shopping centers began to appear and along the way led to the demise of our multi-floor/high level Department Stores.

hckynut(john)