Dept. Store Museum

[bixaorellana]

Here's a rather charming online oddity -- a museum of independent department stores in Canada and the United States:

departmentstoremuseum.blogspot.mx/

I imagine many of us have some kind of history with local department stores. My first "real" job was as a copywriter for this store, for instance.

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When we went to New Orleans, we would always go to Godchaux's and Maison Blanche, mostly for my mother to buy serious "teacher" clothes. Looking at the link for Godchaux's, that department store certainly had some confusing department names: Girls’ Shop • Subteens • Smarteens • Career Shop • Career Coats • Junior Shop • Junior Coats • Young Individualist Shop • Better Sportswear • Better Dresses • Little Couture • Young Towner Shop • Young Innovator