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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.

ShopKo Department store chain

Retro styled Joseph Horne Defunct Pittsburgh Area Department Store

Ohrbach's Department Store Oh!!bach's

Abraham and Straus defunct department store logo A&S

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.

Caldor Department Store

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!

Montgomery Ward department store logo from the 1960s

Zayres Shoppers City Discount Department Store Retro Logo

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.

Ohrbach's Department Store Oh!!bach's

Ames Department Store Working To Bring You Back Logo

Ohrbach's Department Store Vintage 80s Style

Gold Circle Department Store

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.

Zayre Department Store

Gold Circle Department Store

Remembering the beautiful I. Magnin Department Store. I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. When designer Christian Dior visited SF, he toured the Union Square store and called it the "White Marble Palace". Over the course of its existence, I Magnin expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. In the 1970s, under Federated Department Stores ownership, the chain entered the Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas. 

Joseph Horne Company (Horne's) Department Store, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Frugal's Department Store has been in business since 1939. "Now you're shopping with cents" has been their slogan since 1955 due the fact that all of their clothing - at the time - used to cost under $3.00. That, of course, is not the case now. Due to their lack of originality (as well as their recent label of having the highest prices in retail) Frugal's is facing foreclosure.

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Fishers Big Wheel Department Store

Turn Style Discount Department Store

Defunct New Jersey Area Department Store Bamberger's The Cellar Logo

Remembering the wonderful Shillito's Department Store in Cincinnati. One of the nation’s great flagship department stores.

Remembering the Jordan Marsh Department Store. Jordan Marsh & Company was an American department store chain that was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and operated throughout New England. It was founded by Eben Dyer Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841.  After World War II, the management of Jordan Marsh announced that it would build a new store in downtown Boston. It would take up a full city block. Covering an area larger than Harvard Stadium, it would have two stories under ground; another 14 would rise into the air. It would have all the latest technology, including air conditioning, automatic doorways, block-long show windows, and radiant-heated sidewalks. They advertised it as “New England’s Largest Store.”

Escalators in a department store in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Best viewed LARGER.

Remembering Gimbels Department Store. Founded in Indiana and then relocating to Milwaukee, Gimbels eventually opened stores in Philadelphia and New York. With its arrival in New York, Gimbels soon became the primary rival to the leading NY retailer, Macy's. Despite its limited presence, Gimbels was well-known nationwide.  Gimbels gained publicity from the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, the 1967 film Fitzwilly, and was frequently mentioned as a shopping destination of Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz on the hit 1950s TV series I Love Lucy. And of course it is where Will Ferrell works in Elf.

Remembering the cool Horne’s Department Store. Joseph Horne Company was the first department store in Pittsburgh, founded in 1849 by Joseph Horne. Every year since 1953, when the 100-foot tall Christmas tree began to go up on the corner of the Horne’s Department store building at Penn Avenue and Stanwix Streets, Pittsburghers knew that Christmas would soon be here. The tree that wraps around the corner of the seven-story building has more than 2,500 lights and more than 2,000 ornaments. It is still a welcome harbinger of the holiday. Today, the building is known as Highmark Penn Avenue Place, and the tree has been officially dubbed as the “Unity Tree.” But most Pittsburghers still refer to it as the Horne’s Christmas Tree.

Remembering the classy Bullock’s Department Store. Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire specialty department stores stores across Southern California.

Sears Store logo 1966 - 1984