I'm so old I remember going to the SH Mall in the seventies and there was a place called "The Purple Plum" it was like a precursor to Spencer's Gifts in the mall today. Back then the mall was a destination, we went to birthday parties at the mall. It got cold for a long time in the winter so you could sort of be outside but warm, that felt new. There's be two or three video game rooms to get your fam on. And back then my memory is that the food court was very unique looking, sort of rustic, and with odd paths. I wish I could see a photo now, it didn't look like most other food courts.
The Macy's store in Massapequa NY at Sunrise Mall has vintage looking Macy's logo signs. Instead of using the Macy's logo in standard all lowercase Avant Garde Gothic text (with or without big red star brandmark), its logo signs are in all caps Clarendon Bold text, yet with the star apostrophe included.
1984 was the year Sears changed its logo from title case Baskerville text inside rectangle to italicized all caps Helvetica Black text with stripes inside.
I miss that store, as a kid most of our things, from shoes and clothes to appliances were from Sears. As a teenager, got some clothes from there, but in latter years of high school had to have Lacoste, Polo or Hilfiger which Sears didn’t carry, still bought socks, underwear and such, albums, tools, wiper blades, car tires, oil changes, all Sears. Remember saving up money from a part time job while in high school, I bought our family gift, a VCR from Sears. Later, when I moved out, bought my TV, stereo and VCR from there. When I entered the job market, used to buy my suits, dress shirts, ties from Sears, good quality stuff at a reasonable price, when dressed up, it looked like I spent a lot more money than I actually did. Remember, they had video rental for several years before all of them started to pop up, good movies, reasonable prices. They also had a cafeteria, and the food was decent. Don’t have stores like that anymore
Cheryl Tieg's signature clothing line reminds me of another one similar that I dealt with when I once worked at a Sears store from 2007-2014, I can still remember the Kardashian Kollection...
Man I love Sears and Montgomery wards. 1967 picked out a 22rifle I wanted to buy. Being only seven I gave my mom the money she wrote out a check for the amount plus shipping. Two weeks later the rifle showed up at my door. Actually it did not even make it to the door. It was summer vacation and I was waiting out there every day after 5 days. The postman knew and was tired of hearing he asking for it. But was almost as excited as I was when he handed it to me. I tore open that box right in the front yard. When I was growing up. Our parents let us play with guns knives fireworks and Lawn Darts. You know what happened to the stupid? They didn't make it. My 65 Mustang came with a owner's manual that told you how to adjust the valves. Today's owners manual tells you not to drink the battery water.
I don’t remember us buying many electronics from Sears but we definitely had a lot of clothes and Dad bought all his tools and auto parts there. Appliances were exclusively from Sears, usually Kenmore. I typically got the Sears Tele Games versions of Atari games. We got some stuff at Montgomery Wards and JC Penney but not nearly as much. I found some tools at a garage sale that were still in the box from Sears including that timing light in the commercial and a torque wrench.
Pretty cool.. just prove 100 years and even a bad CEO can destroy any company.. Eddie Lambert was not rich enough he sold off all the assets just to get richer. Company was doing more in sale than macy selling more appliances than Lowes. I worked for sears at the end.. Lambert just wanted to sell everything (craftman, diehard, ect and auto center) SEC caught him instead of jail he just bought out was left for pennies so he could get the real-estate to sell off to wholefoods Amazon and other.. he needed two islands in Bimini.
My siblings and I remember Sears for back to school clothes shopping, getting a new tv or power tools, messing with the video game displays, bouncing a ball from sporting goods until our dad or the clerk told us to stop, and hiding in the display toolshed from our dad to annoy him until he called our bluff and pretended to leave us behind and we would run after him.
