Clover was Strawbridges attempt at a K-Mart style of store. I liked them because they always seemed cleaner than K-Mart or Wal-Mart, but they closed.
There are abandoned barns that are cleaner than the insides of K-Marts.
In Texas:
Weiners
Winn’s Variety
I miss Hornsby’s, Spurgeon’s, and Robert Hall Village.
Service Merchandise (I just discovered today before I got to this thread – spooky) is still around. It’s just an online store.
Montgomery Wards is now owned by The Swiss Colony and is also an online store.
There used to be a Service Merchandise-like company in Rochester, N.Y. called Present Company. I just checked and, although there seems to be something there called “Present Company”, it doesn’t seem to be the same place. So they seem to be defunct, after all.
I was hoping to say that Present Company was Excepted.
Stix, Baer & Fuller
I remember Steinbach’s, in the Shore Mall in Pleasantville, NJ. I wonder if Wilmington Dry Goods is still around (Vineland was the other mall close to Cape May, NJ)
Miller & Paine in Lincoln, NE became part of Dillard’s (who, like Macy’s, took over a lot of local department stores).
Liberty House in Honolulu became Macy’s. JC Penney has left Hawaii, but Kmart is still here.
Well, I saw Zodys as more of a five-and-dime sort of store than a department store.
My first thought was Ayrway - we went each Friday night as a kid - I got a 50 cent a week allowance - later I got a dollar - and each week I bought a hard cover book and got change back. Now I have to sell them to pay the bills.
Sad to say but many more retailers - even the ones around for a hundred years will soon be added to the closing list.
Sad isn’t it?
Washington DC also had Lansburgh’s (closed in 1973), Palais Royal (vanished long before I was born), and Goldenberg’s, which had big ads in the newspapers in the fifties, but which nobody seems to remember.