Kresge’s – 1990

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• I think if you check the holding company that owns K-Mart, also owns Sears ,they moved the headquarters to the Chicago Sears offices.

• My dad was a baker there in the 60's. I remember walking there with my mom, (we lived on Bruce) in the early 70's and what I remember most of that store were the wooden creaky floors, jello came in little glass pedestal bowls and in my small mind back then, 'large' bins with sale items in them. The store seemed so huge to me too.

• richard i know what your saying but the dimestores of the 50's and 60's had character not like the big box stores we have today i grew up around pillette and wyandotte back then and we had a neighborhood dimestore GRAYSON'S it was like Kresge's as soon as you walked thru the door the old wooden floor and smell greeted you it was like stepping into another world

• Kresge was downtown's comfy meeting place before the idea of Tim Horton's was hatched. That lunch counter provided many a $2.50 cheeseburger deluxe during my university days. And those creaky floors! Can't help but repeat remarking about how glorious they sounded. It was a great old building and and wonderful place to hang out. I miss it.

• Not to split hairs, but the Kmart holding company actually bought Sears and then assumed the Sears name and the former Sears HQ in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, leaving the former Kmart HQ at Big Beaver and Cunningham Drive in Troy, Michigan empty...Cunningham Drive taking its name from Harry Cunningham, the Kresge President who launched the Kmart format in 1962. Sears/Kmart did leave it's IT Operations in Michigan...I believe located in leased space in Troy.

• Maybe a little off topic but did Woolworths and Metropolitian have lunch counters ? I think so but I'm not sure as I was young when my mom dragged me through these stores ???

• hi Mike, I think Woolworths and Metropolitan did also have lunch counters. I remember going downtown taking the bus on Saturdays in the 50s/early 60s with my mom and sometimes we would go to the lunch counters for a snack etc. I think we went to Kresge's more often for that, but remember Woolworths having one for sure, cant exactly remember about Metropolitan for sure. I too remember the creaky floors in Kresge's, the smells as you went in the door from the bakery and the lunch counter, and the busy sounds as someone mentioned, between music playing from the record bar to the murmurs of people talking. Was a great place for sure, and as someone said, the lunch counter for coffee etc was the Tim Hortons of that time.

• They had the best hamburgers ever. Cooked and then kept in a kind of gravy.

• I enjoyed their special deserts and the family atmosphere of the department store. Now there isn't a family oriented establishment downtown.

• I too have fond memories of S.S. Kresge as mentioned in the many great postings here, their cream puffs were the best. I grew up nearer to the Kresge at Dorwin Plaza and although smaller, they had a lunch counter at the back of the store where a sundae could be had for a quarter. Then a look at the Matchbox cars under the glass display case before exiting out the back door to look at the deer, black bear and male peacock at the Windsor Sportsman club.