Favourite York City Department Stores

[joelippard]

Just look in these various pictures how people took time to create and make things that looked so nice.  The buildings, the displays, all well thought out instead of the thrown together crap of the current day.  Look at the ladies how they are dressed in these photos, and look at how they are dressed nowadays.  I was lucky to get in on some of this since I was born in '74 but I have to wonder what has happened?  It's really sad in a way.

 

[ovrphil]

Cuffs054 - That's it - Webb City..I see the St. Petersburg store. It was a real zoo, some of the oldsters really didn't care if they ran you down. That store had everything, but the shoppers were animals.

Joelippard - What happened is NUMBERS, where creativity and associated costs have been slashed or eliminated. Interestingly, Von Maur, out of Davenport, Iowa originally, just established their first flagship store for the South and East, I think, spending millions on renovating and expanding the Northpoint Mall wing, formerly home for Lord and Taylor and Belk(two years ago). The exterior was redone in brick! The interior is nice, but overall - numbers won and the displays are half visible and/or "weak". The ceiling lighting is clunky big old white track lighting spots.

Oh well..New York must still offer great retail and displays.

Phil

Not exactly relevant here, but wanted to mention for those who enjoyed the J.L.Hudson Co. stores, here's a link to J.L. Hudson recipes, served in their restaurants.

http://www.detroitmemories.com/links.html

 

[blackstone]

Not exactly "department" stores, but...

my favorite places to shop in New York has always been Canal St. I haven't been there in quite a while, though.

 

[cuffs054]

ovrphil,
Thank goodness Wally World is keeping the tradition of "animalistic shopper" alive today!

 

[jamiel]

Unfortunately we no longer have Parisian in metro Detroit...BonTon only had rights to the name for 5 years, so they thought using it during the Macys transition would help with people sad about losing Fields and Hudson's. Now we have Carsons like Chicago. BonTon has had a weird nameplate strategy, with 3 nameplates within 75 miles (Younkers in Lansing, elder-Beerman in Monroe, and Parisian/CArsons in detroit.

 

[ovrphil]

Cuffs054 - WallMart will never be like Maas Bros. and personally, I prefer Meijer in Michigan. They do get the animals, I mean - personalities for the animalistic shoppers. No photos please! LOL!

jamiel : OHNO! Parisian is gone and it's now Carsons - so Partridge Creek and the other Mall near Oakland University that had those Parisians are gone? :I used to shop at Elder-Beerman..quite a while ago - my
apologies - got off the thread Launderess started...

 

[retromania]

And

Quality has gone down the drain. All they can do is offer an easy return policy!