Who Remembers Hudsons and Who Has a picture of there logo
Their flagship in downtown Detroit was massive, in fact, it was the world's tallest department store and America's second-largest department store (topped only by the Macy's in Herald Square).
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/JLHudsonsPostcard.jpg)
Sadly, it was imploded on October 24, 1998.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1HJoG-1Pg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1HJoG-1Pg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SxwNW4yMs8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SxwNW4yMs8)
Never was in the Downtown store but used to shop the one at Lakeside Mall.
Quote from: TheFugitive on September 15, 2014, 08:15:26 AM
Never was in the Downtown store but used to shop the one at Lakeside Mall.
Almost the same here, though I was only two when the downtown store closed to all but employees, though I did shop at the one at Southland Center.
There is a person named Karen Newman who recorded a Christmas song titled "It's Christmas Eve on Woodward Avenue." It's an olden-days Christmas story told from a Detroiter's perspective.
Hudson's, specifically their Thanksgiving Day Parade (which is known today as America's Thanksgiving Day Parade) was mentioned in the following lyric:
Santa Claus came to town
In the Hudson's Parade
Quote from: Hudsons81 on November 24, 2014, 10:45:55 PM
There is a person named Karen Newman who recorded a Christmas song titled "It's Christmas Eve on Woodward Avenue." It's an olden-days Christmas story told from a Detroiter's perspective.
Was that on the flipside of
Rust and Smoke by Da Yoopers? ???