Eatons Department Store.

[veg-o-matic]

Boscov's, a smallish chain from PA has recently expanded into the Baltimore area and I for one am thrilled.

This is the closest thing to a "real" department store I've seen in a good long while. In addition to the usual women's clothes/shoes/cosmetics/jewelry, they have

--An actual men's department
--Furniture
--Electronics
--Major appliances
--Toys
--Giftwrap (free)
--Vacuums
--A great Christmas department.

So far, I think Books is the only department missing, but I haven't looked too thoroughly.

The staff is all very helpful and nice. It's pretty much what a department store should be.

veg

 

[pushtorelease]

and what department stores used to be - nice to hear. Could it be a (gasp) trend?

Hey Pete, I'd forgotten about that cafeteria, I always loved the hardware dept with the massive bins of nails etc. They bulldozed Woodwards last month after sitting empty for so many years - everything except the shell of the original 1800's bldg. It's going to be a mix of "luxury" condos and social housing. City's hoping it will start to change the downtown eastside. There's nothing left in that area now, everythings closed and boarded up - really a no mans land.

 

[petek]

Oh that's too bad but then what could they do... The 5th floor clearance center was also good (since they couldn't have a bargain basement being full of groceries lol) That's where I picked up the KA and a loveseat if I remember correctly. Their clearance prices were true clearance prices, not just the pretend clearance price practices of the Bay and Eatons.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Boscov's

Yes, veg, I love that store as well (we have one in Nanuet)...

We also have a Century 21 store in Paramus now....

All steps in the right direction.

 

[exploder321]

Century 21? I thought that was a real estate agency

 

[oxydolfan1]

Yep, but it's also the name of a department store in New York in which everything is steeply discounted.

 

[exploder321]

Ahh...

 

[pushtorelease]

and SO worth a visit! When I was in NY in Sept, I shopped til I dropped there. Good deals...

 

[angus]

I too am nostalgic for the department stores of my youth. The great Abraham & Straus store at the corner of Fulton and Hoyt Streets in downtown Brooklyn was always my favorite place. It was an Art Deco masterpiece with the big tree suspended (and revolving, to boot)from the ceiling of the central elevator lobby. The windows were always spectacular and the entire store sparkled. I particularly loved Santaland on the 8th floor, with trees, sleighs, reindeer and huge wrapped packages. After shopping, we would always have lunch at either their in store restaurant, The Garden Room or go over to Juniors for burgers and "Broadway" ice cream sodas (chocolate soda with coffee ice cream).

Now the store is a Macy's as are all Federated Stores, and several floors have been shut down and the entire store needs a facelift desparately. Particularly sad as Abraham & Straus was one of the original stores comprising Federated along with Boston's Filene's, Columbus' Lazarus, Cincinnati's Shillito' and I think San Francisco's I Magnin.....

 

[exploder321]

All these wonderful stores..

We used to have severel discount stores here that i grew up with and loved..One is still around, just hard to find..Thats Roses... The other was Sky City (i can still see the inside in my head)and Brendles..Brendles mainly had electronics and Jewlery but i still loved to go in and play with the Tv's and such..Grams bought two of her Eurekas there, the one was an electronic touch model that she ruined with a dog bone... The last one was a dud, so it got given away and then i talked her into a $500 kenmore canister that i loved and used alot, until it electrocuted me last year... I got frightned of it and gave it to Goodwill..