Department Store T-Shirts

Halle Department Store. Early logo. We all called it Halle's, but for years the name on all the advertising was The Halle Bros. Co, 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 and 60's.

Kmart Grill

Remembering Younkers Department Store. Younkers was adepartment store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa. In 1899 the Younker brothers' main store in downtown Des Moines was moved to 7th and Walnut Streets, and it operated at the same location for 106 years before closing on August 12, 2005. The downtown Des Moines store became known for its Tea Room restaurant, which opened in 1913 and closed shortly before the store did. It also installed Iowa's first escalator, known as the "electric stairs," in 1939.

J. W. Robinson Co., Robinson's, was a chain of upscale department stores that operated in Southern California and Arizona. Robinson's gleaming flagship store was located on Seventh Street, slightly off the Broadway retail corridor in Los Angeles. Robinson's - often mentioned by Johnny Carson' on the Tonight Show - was a bastion of luxury and good taste for the Southern California's carriage trade. It was eventually bought by the May Co. and became Robinsons-May.

The Jamesway Department Store

Phelps Department Store (White Text)

who remembers this logo from a long ago closed department store?

If you learned anything from Roseanne, it is that you "Shop Well at Rodbell's". Rosie worked at the lunch counter in the store with Bonnie and she deemed it one of her favorite jobs ever. If you know trivia like the fact that she got her family in a commercial for the store, then this t-shirt was made for you.

Remembering Sibley’s Department Store. Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York-based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store was at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester and at 1.1 million square feet it was the largest department store between New York City and Chicago. Sibley's is fondly remembered as the premier department store in upstate New York.

Abraham & Straus defunct department store logo A&S

I don't know about the rest of the world, but this was huge in Ontario

The Jamesway Department Store - We Care About You

A place known since childhood, the city’s primary department store, decades of memories. The indescribable joy of seeing Father Christmas, neon on lights, and artificial Christmas trees, a world seen through the eyes of a little boy, surrounded by noises, smells and sensations. Tills ringing, loud voices, a food hall redolent of cheese and ham and ground roasting coffee, escalators transporting me to an enchanted world of novelty, and then to the vinegar scented dining room where salty chips and sugary, creamy trifle would be served. I loved that shop, loved it with the intensity of a close and long friendship. It was part of me, part of my childhood. I wanted to capture it in paint, to focus on a corner, to explore its texture and colou...

Jolly Old St. Nick arrives in his sleigh during a department store Santa Claus parade. This well known character will delight everyone on your gift or greeting card list for Christmas.

Zayre Department Store

Liberty, is a world famous luxury department store in Great Marlborough Street, in the West End of London, established in 1875. Known for it's close connection to art and culture, they are most famous for their bold & floral print fabrics. In 1924, this store was constructed from the timbers of two ships: HMS Impregnable, and HMS Hindustan. The frontage on Great Marlborough Street is the same length as the HMS Hindustan. The emporium was designed by Edwin Thomas Hall and his son, Edwin Stanley Hall. They designed the building at the height of the 1920s fashion for Tudor revival. The shop was engineered around three giant light wells that formed the main focus of the building, one of which is the focus of this photograph. Each of these...

Caldor of the 1990s

Remembering the great Abraham & Straus Department Store in Brooklyn NY. Officially Abraham & Straus but everybody just called it A & S. The company's 841,000-square-foot Brooklyn flagship store was located at 422 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2003, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Municipal Art Society put the building on a list of 28 historic buildings in downtown Brooklyn that needed to be protected.

You'll find only the best prices at Freese's Department Store. Come in on weekends and meet Pennywise the Clown. He loves kids.

The name "Hudson" came from Joseph L. Hudson, a Detroit department store entrepreneur and founder of Hudson's department store, who provided the necessary capital and gave permission for the company to be named after him. A total of eight Detroit businessmen formed the company on February 20, 1909, to produce an automobile which would sell for less than US$1,000 (equivalent to approximately $26,656 in today's funds). One of the chief "car men" and organizer of the company was Roy D. Chapin, Sr., a young executive who had worked with Ransom E. Olds. (Chapin's son, Roy Jr., would later be president of Hudson-Nash descendant American Motors Corp. in the 1960s).

Crazy Eddie is Insane

Check out this Dayton's Department Store Minneapolis Minnesota Vintage Retro design. Dayton's was a department store chain founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902 by George Draper Dayton. The 6-story department store was located on the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. It was a twin cities institution and known for beautiful holiday displays.

In a city in the centre of France I came across this beautiful old building. I was fascinated by the blue, by the faded almost metallic blue that formed the signage and shutters. By the grace of God. It seemed an odd name, filled with meaning and evoking an era before commercialization, before the street surrendered to chains and the gluttony of fast food. Around me the old city centre vibrates gently, promising old fashioned cheese shops, the glorious aroma of roasting coffee beans and the timeless peel of bells from the cathedral.A great souvenir of France, a lovely addition to any collection, and a perfect gift.

KaDeWe, Department Store of the West, Am Wittenbergplatz, Schöneberg , Berlin, Germany

STORE CLOSING SALE EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Remembering L. S. Ayres Department Store. L. S. Ayres and Company was based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fashions, the Tea Room, holiday events and displays, and the basement budget store. A long-time Ayres slogan, "That Ayres Look", promoted the company as a fashion leader, and by 1972 it had become the oldest continuous retail slogan in the United States.

Bring brand names home for the holidays!

Remembering Hens & Kelly Department Store in Buffalo NY. Hens and Kelly, established in 1892 by Mathias J. Hens and Patrick J. Kelly, was a chain of department stores based in Buffalo, New York. The downtown store was located at 478 Main Street at the corner of Mohawk Street. They were early adopters of S&H Green Stamps as a promotional incentive for repeat customers. This was a rewards program that provided stamps with each purchase. These stamps could be used to buy products from a catalogue at a later date.

Located just underneath the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan

Pic 'N' Save Corporation (later MacFrugals) was at one time the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. William Zimmerman founded Pic 'N' Save Corporation in 1950 in Culver City, California. By 1985, it operated 90 stores in California and six other U.S. states. In 1991, the company changed its name to MacFrugals. It later expanded to the Southwest and into the South, but left both markets in the late '90s. In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million in stock and slowly began converting them to their closeout retail store brand.

Bradlees logo used from 1974 to 2001, for the one time famous discount department store. Never forget!!

Retro design Bradlees Family Center defunct department store logo

Remembering Gottschalks Department Store. Gottschalks was a American department store chain that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada). Gottschalks was founded by Emil Gottschalk in 1904 as a dry goods store in downtown Fresno, California. Gottschalks gained success by locating only in smaller cities that could not support full-size national department stores.

Zayre department store logo

have come to hold iconic status in the country.

Remembering Hecht’s Department Store. Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland. Hecht's was a large chain of department stores that operated mainly in the mid-Atlantic area. The firm originated in Baltimore in 1860. And then in 1896 Hecht’s opened a store in Washington DC, which eventually moved to a grand glass and marble store at the corner of 7th and F Streets Northwest in 1925. By 2005, Hecht's had some 81 stores in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The family-owned business made customers a top priority and believed in a personalized shopping experience.