20 Department Stores You Remember. Only One Still Stands

20 Department Stores You Remember. Only One Still Stands Saturday downtown meant the big store: the clock out front, the brass revolving door, perfume and floor wax, an elevator girl calling out the floors. We walk back through twenty department stores America grew up in, from Woodies in Washington to Marshall Field's in Chicago, and find out why nineteen of them went dark and which one still keeps its family name over the door. The Washington store with a real merry-go-round inside, and the Brooklyn store with living mannequins Gimbels, the store that held a Thanksgiving parade four years before Macy's The winter Atlanta could not pay its teachers, and the store that cashed their pay anyway The Cleveland store from A Christmas Story, and the organ with nearly 29,000 pipes in Philadelphia The one store still standing, and the owner who came out of retirement to save it Subscribe for more stories of the American places you remember, and tell me which store you miss in the comments. Tags: department stores, Gimbels, Marshall Field's, Rich's Atlanta, Boscov's, downtown shopping 1960s