“Harvey Kresge”
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Weren’t there Kresge dimestores or drugstores at one time - or am I thinking of something else?
no clue re drugstores. Doubt it. Keep thinking.
And yes, dimestores.
Yes. Kresgee stores were common and popular in Detroit where I grew up. This was back in 60’s thru 80’s.
A huge Kresgee’s was downtown on Woodward Ave. across the street from another retail icon, Hudson’s department store.
Both stores had sit down cafeterias. I used to visit Kresegees and have a special pancake breakfast with my Dad.
SS KRESGE 5 and Dime. Big in the 50s
SS Kresge’s was a competitor of Woolworth’s 5 and Dimes. They were smart enough to shift to K-Mart stores in the Sixties and avoid the fate of Woolworth’s, Kress’s and Green’s. JC Penney made the same switch to big suburban stores with big parking lots and survived. Now both of them are bankrupt and not likely to last long.
Yep. I mentioned them in a reply here before I saw your comment. I grew up in the 50's in Rochester, New York. The main department stores there were Sibley's, McCurdy's, Edwards, along with W.T. Grant's, Lerner's, The National (higher priced clothing), and others. We also had Western Auto, and Noah's Ark stores.
K-mart was an offshoot of SS Kresge. I remember one in Boston.
I am assuming they are the Kresge of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, designed by Aero Saarinen, the same architect as the TWA building at JFK Airport.
From Alice Cooper’s “Generation Landslide”
The over-indulgent machines were their children
There wasn’t a way down on Earth here to cool them
‘Cause they looked just like humans
At Kresge’s and Woolworth’s
Yes. Kresges was a dime store that didn’t survive the strip mall and shopping mall revolution. They had genuine soda fountains.