I don't have any good transition pictures for going back upstairs this time, so this is a bit of an abrupt transition, oh well. The cosmetics department was completely gutted already, leaving this "your favorites" case ironically empty.
I know the case in the picture is referring to cosmetics, but I think this image pretty much sums up my opinion about Macy's in modern times. My favorite Macy's department in the 1980s and very early 1990s was their electronics department (which was located next to 'The Cellar' department for flatware and such, but oddly enough this was all on the top floor of the store instead of being in some kind of cellar, lol), but Macy's eliminated their electronics department a long time ago (and, no, I don't count an Apple vending machine as being an electronics department). Foley's, which became Macy's here, got rid of electronics as well. With all that being said, my favorite case has been empty at Macy's for a long, long time!
Huh, I never would have thought of Macy's (or any department store except maybe Sears, for that matter) as a place that would have sold electronics! I guess I'm just too young for things like that, unfortunately.
Department stores used to sell just about all the stuff Sears used to sell. Here's a scanned image of the department listings at the Almeda Mall Foley's (now Macy's) here in Houston when it opened in 1966. Stores like this used to sell hardware/tools/garden, sporting goods including guns, records, electronics, pharmacy/prescriptions, floral, books, fabric, gourmet foods, and so forth.
That image came from this post from the South Belt Memories blog post about the Almeda Mall Foley's. If you want a boatload of information about how Foley's chose the location of the store from internal store documents, how they decided to angle the parking spots, how they picked the mall name, historical images, and all of that, you should check out this post: https://southbelthouston.blogspot.com/2016/05/uh-foleys-archives-almeda-genoa.html
I know the case in the picture is referring to cosmetics, but I think this image pretty much sums up my opinion about Macy's in modern times. My favorite Macy's department in the 1980s and very early 1990s was their electronics department (which was located next to 'The Cellar' department for flatware and such, but oddly enough this was all on the top floor of the store instead of being in some kind of cellar, lol), but Macy's eliminated their electronics department a long time ago (and, no, I don't count an Apple vending machine as being an electronics department). Foley's, which became Macy's here, got rid of electronics as well. With all that being said, my favorite case has been empty at Macy's for a long, long time!
ReplyDeleteHuh, I never would have thought of Macy's (or any department store except maybe Sears, for that matter) as a place that would have sold electronics! I guess I'm just too young for things like that, unfortunately.
DeleteDepartment stores used to sell just about all the stuff Sears used to sell. Here's a scanned image of the department listings at the Almeda Mall Foley's (now Macy's) here in Houston when it opened in 1966. Stores like this used to sell hardware/tools/garden, sporting goods including guns, records, electronics, pharmacy/prescriptions, floral, books, fabric, gourmet foods, and so forth.
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That image came from this post from the South Belt Memories blog post about the Almeda Mall Foley's. If you want a boatload of information about how Foley's chose the location of the store from internal store documents, how they decided to angle the parking spots, how they picked the mall name, historical images, and all of that, you should check out this post: https://southbelthouston.blogspot.com/2016/05/uh-foleys-archives-almeda-genoa.html
Wow, that's a bunch of cool stuff! I wish I could find something even remotely that comprehensive for some of the stores around here.
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