"How about favorite Department Stores"???..Either defunct or still extant ones apply....

[programcomputer]

Oh yeah one more thing

I forgot Jacobsen's.

Jacobsens was a multi story department store downtown East Lansing. Went there a few times. It was mainly laides shtuff tho. Had some stuff for guys. I remember getting my first leather coat from Jacobsen's, it was brown with a tan furry inner lining. Grandparents bought it for me for my 10th birthday. Jacobsen's was one place that had an escalator that my brother and I would ride endlessly until we were shooed off by the nasty sales ladies.

This store was left about 2000 where they moved out to a new wing in the Meridian Mall when then a year later, Jacobsen's, which was based out of Jackson Michigan, left the scene forever. The old store downtown East Lansing was reconverted on the main and lower floors into a Barnes and Noble. Upper floors into Apartments and a banquet hall.

The mall location became a Galyan's which is an outdoor store.

 

[gyrafoam]

Reply to Retromom

Hi Venus, I'm telling you I could smell the fresh cashews roasting the moment I walked through Sear's door! I loved the orange jellied candies as well and our housekeeper would make the most wonderful cookie bars with them! Comming from a family of Funeral Directors, I always thought it was funny that they tore down the old Greenberg & Flynn Funeral Home to build that Regency Hyatt House. Back in the late '60's when it opened that revolving restaurant was the spot! It is now antiquated and completely dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers. Now a rather famous Atlanta (tourist trap) restaurant is now located in the old Autrey & Lowndes Funeral Home. Would'nt care to eat anything from that walk-in!

 

[veg-o-matic]

Candy departments

Sears had the best double-dipped peanuts. It was always difficult deciding whether to get them or some cashews.

The smell of caramel corn will forever remind me of Wards. The store always used to reek of it!

veg

 

[doityrselfguy]

Jacobsen's

Programcomputer,

I attended MSU in the late '80s and remember the Jacobsen's on E. Grand River. I had a side job that required me to call on some of their staff from time to time, and remember that it was probably one of the smaller Jacobsen's around, although it still had three stories with the escalators up the center, and was very glitzy. It seemed out of place among the myriad of ever-changing (sometimes dumpy) student-based stores around it. I remember asking a salesperson where I could find the Old Spice. She chuckled at me and said "Oh, we don't sell that here, but we have plenty of other nice things".

 

[david]

Now I remember..

Woolco of course. We had one, maybe 2, until the late 70's or early 80's. They had a complete line of Whirlpool, GE, and Tappan products. I saw the last Whirlpool dryer with a window in the door(in coppertone) there about 1966, the sunshine dryer by GE, and a V12 washer there. They always had neat appliances. I believe most of the stores were closed by 1980. We also had 2 predecessors of Walmart called "Globe shopping City", with the entire shopping experience concept featuring automotive, clothing, electrics and a grocery department. These only lasted a few years before the company went belly up. I've always been a sucker for discount department stores.