Old department stores

The wooden escalators at Kaufman's/Macy's in downtown Pittsburgh.

In 1852, Aristide and Marguerite Boucicaut began to transform a small shop on the corner of Rue de Sèvres and Rue de Bac into what became known as Le Bon Marché. Designed by Gustav Eiffel it became a landmark and destination in Belle Époque Paris. Today it is lauded as the first department store in

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Lora Lee Dress Shop, New York, 1950s

in Ashtabula the first McDonald's across the street is where I first ate at a McDonald's with the real arches.

Woolworth in South Park Mall located next to HEB grocery, YES HEB WAS IN THE MALL BACK THEN.

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Gemco TV Department - 1970s. If you couldn't find it at Gemco, you didn't need it.....

Joseph hornes. Natrona heights

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From the rich photographic archives of the Library of Congress (by way of Curbed National) come these photos from 1953 of the interiors of Miami Beach's Burdine's Department Store in its...

Ames department store in Waterville,Maine in september 2002 a few days before the closing. It's a former Zayre. Part of it is now a Dollar Tree. The storefront has been entirely renovated.

WT Grant department store 1959

Jacqueline Kennedy, Joan Rivers, Miss Piggy, and other Bergdorf devotees.

Converted to Neiman Marcus in 1981.