Defunct Department Stores From The Past

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You know, another benefit of these videos is you can see all the sweet cars people drove at the time.

I miss those days when retail shopping was the primary method of shopping and a large cornerstone of our economy. Plus the whole family experience. I have fond memories of going to these stores at Xmas or summer with my beautiful kind parents and my brother and sister. Just the happiest childhood memories one could ever hope for.

The Sears Christmas Wish Book is still one of my fav childhood memories. Good times...good times. I miss them.

I miss Radio Shack. I know it's not a department store but I just had to bring it up.

Marshall Field's was a special store, particularly the flagship in downtown Chicago. Many of us native Chicagoans (even we who moved away decades ago) absolutely despised Macy's for completely obliterating the Marshall Field's brand and changing the entire downtown store's look and feel. With the changes, they destroyed many decades of memories for us. Everything has changed too much, including the disturbing closures of many department store chains over the year. Occasionally one does experience a burst of sentimentality and nostalgia. Thanks for the video.

I miss K-Mart. Used to go there when I was little with my Grandma and my Mom. Nice memories

I still like brick and mortar better than online.

I miss Woolworth and the lunch counter

It's always a good day whenever Recollection Road uploads

Our TV when I was a kid came from Montgomery Ward. I miss the good ole days shopping for things as a family.

While I remember most of of them. Zodys in Garden Grove was where my future wife was working when I met her. She worked in domestics and I needed some towels. I ended up with a wife, two daughters one son. Couple of dogs a few cats. There was a bird. Hamsters and reptiles. More memories than I can hold. Side splitting laughter. Heart breaks, tragedy and tears. Oh and one set of blue towels she recommended for the low low price of $7.99

In our section of SoCal, there were many department stores from high end types like I Magnin, Buffums, Bullock’s, Robinson, Saks. Next tier occupied by May Co, The Broadway, Mervyn’s. Then there was always dependable Sears, Montgomery Wards and KMart. Going into JC Penney now is like visiting an old friend on life support.

Kmart is still going strong here in Australia and New Zealand . In fact it’s one of our largest department stores with 300+ stores. Woolworths also still exists here - they operate one of our largest supermarket chains plus have a chain of dept-stores called Big W (same format as Kmart).

When k mart opened their "super" kmart in our area i was so excited. They had mini carts and a mini door for kids. That place was so huge! I miss brick and mortar.

Miss all these stores! Yesterday drove by the large empty land where our Sears was. 😢

Seeing the 99 Cents Only and Family Dollar Stores close down today because of "Legalized" shop lifting made me think of the stores in this video...and I felt so sad...

My grandfather opened a Ben Franklin five and dime in the 1930's in Carrollton Ohio. It is still there, though not the same format. My mother Co-owned one in Orrville Ohio from 1961 until 1976.

For us in the 70s the biggest department store was always Sears. Then there was J.C. Penney. But K Mart was always the biggest discount store. My best friend and I used to say that nearly everything in our homes was either bought at Sears or K Mart. I remember Caldor, but I don't remember where or when. I remember commercials for Korvette's, but never saw a Korvette store. Yes, Two Guys! That was a store my parents went to occasionally. The location we went to is shown at 18:10. We also occasionally went to H.L. Green and W.T. Grant. But I have no idea where "our" stores would have been.

I must admit that I’m one of the kids that couldn’t wait for the Christmas catalog 😆😆My Mother would hand it to me along with a marker to circle things I wanted…. Ahh, those were the days 🥰Wards, Sears,Mervyns, KMart,Woolworths, were all regular shopping places for us🙂I also absolutely loved Service Merchandise ♥️Nobody had better jewelry prices!!!