I'd dispute your dates about Knapp's in Lansing---I was at Mich State from 1981 to 1985 and think that Knapps closed in 1981 before I was up there. In those days, there were 2 1/2 malls in Lansing (Lansing Mall with Penneys/Wards/Hudson's), Frandor (with Sears)--what a weird place, but was walking distance from campus, and Meridian Mall which had Woolco (!), Penneys and something else, maybe a movie theater.
Remember sitting in a DeLorean at the car show at Lansing Mall in 1981--there was a dealer in town.
Best memory was my grandmother taking me down to Marshall Fields downtown--we got to take the CTA from Jefferson Park and got off right under M-F. Other grandmother would take me down and we'd take the Burlington railroad to Union Station.
WE lived in St. Louis walking distance to a mall with a big Stix Baer and Fuller and Sears, and a small Famous-Barr which had appliances but not furniture or a budget store (which used to be a Vandevoort's). Famous-Barr probably got out of appliances in the early 80s upon a renovation (they kept notions and toiletries past that point) but Dillards (which bought Stix from Associated Dry Goods) kept appliances until the mid 90s (they still sell furniture in some of their markets including St. Louis/Kansas City)
Remember sitting in a DeLorean at the car show at Lansing Mall in 1981--there was a dealer in town.
Best memory was my grandmother taking me down to Marshall Fields downtown--we got to take the CTA from Jefferson Park and got off right under M-F. Other grandmother would take me down and we'd take the Burlington railroad to Union Station.
WE lived in St. Louis walking distance to a mall with a big Stix Baer and Fuller and Sears, and a small Famous-Barr which had appliances but not furniture or a budget store (which used to be a Vandevoort's). Famous-Barr probably got out of appliances in the early 80s upon a renovation (they kept notions and toiletries past that point) but Dillards (which bought Stix from Associated Dry Goods) kept appliances until the mid 90s (they still sell furniture in some of their markets including St. Louis/Kansas City)