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Remembering Burdine’s Department Store. Miami, Florida. Over its nearly 110-year history, Burdines grew into a popular chain of department stores, known as 'The Florida Store,' decorated with palm trees in the center of the store, painted in pink and blue, and other subtropical colors and motifs.

Remembering the Bon-Ton Department Store. Bon-Ton was started in 1898, when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel, opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room millinery and dry goods store on Market Street in York, Pennsylvania. Bon-Ton eventually bought other department stores including, Hess's, Elder-Beerman, Carson Pirie Scott (later branded as Carson's), Bergner's, Boston Store, Herberger's, and Younkers.

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Remembering Foley’s Department Store with their great fun 70s style logo. If you're from the South, especially Houston, Texas, chances are you're familiar with the former department store giant. In 1947 Foley's opened at 1110 Main Street in downtown Houston. They spent $13 million to build this new store, which was heralded by the press as the nation's "most modern department store." There are no windows because the owners wanted to emphasize the fact that it was fully climate controlled. The state-of-the-art department store was a local hit for decades before succumbing to the wrecking ball in 2013.  Foley's operated stores in Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Strawbridge & Clothier was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. In its day a gracious urban emporium, the Center City Philadelphia flagship store added branch stores starting in the 1930s, and together they enjoyed annual sales of over a billion dollars by their zenith in the 1980s

Remembering E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvettes. Korvettes was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City. It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting statutes. Founded by World War II veteran Eugene Ferkauf and his friend, Joe Zwillenberg, E. J. Korvette did much to define the idea of a discount department store. It displaced earlier five and dime retailers and preceded later discount stores, like Walmart, and warehouse clubs such as Costco.

Remembering the much-loved Wanamaker’s Department Store, in Philadelphia. John Wanamaker Department Store was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker, it was influential in the development of the retail industry including offering the first restaurant to be located inside a department store as well as being the first department store with electrical illumination (1878) and the first to use price tags. And in pop culture much of the 1987 movie Mannequin was filmed at Wanamaker's as was the 1991 sequel, Mannequin Two: On the Move. The Wanamaker's flagship store in Center City, with its famous organ and eagle from the St. Louis World's Fair, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978.

Remembering the great Dayton’s Department Store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dayton's was an American department store chain founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902 by George Draper Dayton. He built the 6-story department store on the corner of 7th and Nicollet. Built in Renaissance Revival style, its decorative details are borrowed from ancient Greece and Rome, and its overall form is reminiscent of 15th-century Italian palazzos. It was a twin cities institution.  

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An ode to your favorite bygone department store. Bradlees, we'll miss you. Or maybe we won't.

Remembering Bamberger’s Department Store. Newark, New Jersey. Bamberger's was a department store chain with locations primarily in New Jersey, also with locations in the states of Delaware, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania. The downtown Newark building was not only a department store but also a radio station. WOR was established by Bamberger Broadcasting Service in 1922. The broadcast studio was located on the sixth floor. On October 11, 1949, WOR-TV (channel 9) signed on the air, becoming the last of the New York metropolitan area VHF television stations to begin operations.

Remembering the wonderful Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, Georgia.  Rich’s began in Atlanta in 1867. In 1924 Rich's moved into its flagship store at 45 Broad St. SE, which it would occupy until closing in 1991. Rich’s had 2 beloved holiday traditions, the Great Tree and the Pink Pig Flyer. Starting in 1948, the Great Tree was set on top of the multi-level glass "Crystal Bridge" connecting the main downtown Atlanta store across Forsyth Street. The Pink Pig (installed in 1956, and known originally as The Snowball Express) was a child-scaled monorail. The original Pink Pig Flyers monorail cars are now at the Atlanta History Center.

Remembering the well-loved Lazarus Department Store in Columbus Ohio. Lazarus was a regional department store retail chain operating primarily in the Midwest. Lazarus developed or was an early adopter of many shopping innovations such as "one low price" (no bargaining necessary, earlier implemented by the John Wanamaker Store), first department store escalators in the country, first air-conditioned store in the country, and Fred Lazarus Jr. successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to permanently fix Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November, ensuring a stable timetable for the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

Remembering the great Kaufmann’s Department Store. If you lived in Pittsburgh PA this was the place. Kaufmann's flagship store was built in 1887 at 400 Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. It was known as The Big Store. And no wonder, at one point, the building was the largest department store in Pittsburgh with twelve retail floors, spanning an entire downtown city block. Kaufmann's Big Store had a landmark outdoor clock at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street. It was popular downtown meeting place, with the oft-used phrase "Meet me under Kaufmann's clock."  The clock is still a Pittsburgh icon.

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Remembering the beloved Higbee Department Store in Cleveland Ohio. The official company name was The Higbee Company, but we all called it Higbee's. Eventually they did too, changing their logo. It is also the department store featured in the movie A Christmas Story, where Ralphie Parker first sees the Red Rider BB Gun.

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Remembering the G Fox Department Store. Hartford, Connecticut. G. Fox & Co. was a dominant retail store in the southern New England area for most of the twentieth century. It was the largest privately held department store in the nation when it was sold to the May Department Stores Company in 1965. The G. Fox flagship store was known for customer attractions, including a large walk-through Christmas display and a talking myna bird housed in a huge cage located on the fifth floor. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places within Hartford’s Department Store Historic District.

Remembering the great Marshall Field’s Department Store. Marshall Field's was a department store in Chicago, Illinois, founded in the 19th century that grew to become a large chain before being acquired by Macy's, Inc in 2005. Marshall Field's great six-story merchandising emporium catered to urban women with leisure time. Rather than "buyer beware," Field's motto was "Give the lady what she wants." He had that motto displayed on a sign above his desk.

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Remebering Thalhimers Department Store. Thalhimers was a department store chain in the South. Based in Richmond, Virginia, the venerable chain at its peak operated dozens of stores in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and one store in Memphis, Tennessee. Thalhimer's traditions were most notable during the holiday season with visits from the sticker-distributing Snow Bear and, in later years, the arrival of Lego Land at the downtown Richmond store. Its luxurious restaurant, the Richmond Room, was the source of many recipes still published today. The Richmond Room also had a fast food spin-off, the fried chicken chain Golden Skillet.

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Carson Pirie Scott & Company was a regional department store chain that operating 51 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In 1904 the firm moved into a 12-story building on State Street, a beautiful tower designed by the renowned American architect Louis Sullivan. This distinctive building was named a Chicago Historical Landmark in 1959.

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Remembering Halle's Department Store. The official name was The Halle Bros. Co, but we all called it Halle's, The store was used as the location of the fictional department store, Winfred-Louder, in the television series, "The Drew Carey Show". Actress Halle Berry, a native of Cleveland, was named after the store. This and Higbee's were the beloved department stores in Cleveland Ohio in the 50's 60's.and 70's.

Clarkins Carrousel Department Store carousel logo, super vintage!

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Montgomery Ward department store logo from the 1960s

Remembering the B. Altman Department Store. B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman. On March 12, 1985, Altman's Fifth Avenue building was designated a New York City landmark. The Manhattan B. Altman store featured in the storyline of the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, in which the main character, Midge Maisel, takes a job on the shop floor. Exterior scenes were filmed at the store's former Fifth Avenue building.

Remembering Famous Barr Department Store. The Railway Exchange Building in downtown St. Louis was the home to the flagship Famous-Barr store and headquarters of the May Department Stores Company. It was the first air-conditioned department store in the country. Back in the day, this Famous-Barr store was the place to see and be seen. Christmas shopping at this department store was an event, so much so that memories of visiting the store or even just stopping by to check out the elaborate displays in the windows is a happy memory for generations of St. Louisans.

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Remembering the beloved Higbee's Department Store in Cleveland Ohio. We all called it Higbee's, but for years the name on all their advertising was The Higbee Company. This was their logo. It is also the department store featured in the movie A Christmas Story, where Ralphie Parker first sees the Red Rider BB Gun.

Hill's Department Store Dog Lossie has a magnifying glass, cool retro design!

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