Kresge’s – 1990

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• A Repeat (2012)
  Ahhh… Kresges…One could always find a gift for every occasion & for every budget !
  After classes in the afternoons (early to mid 60`s) , a bunch of us (St Mary`s high school students… decked out in our plaids & beanies !)would head down to Kresges to share a cherrie coke & fries. The floats were the best !
  Carole Anne

• The mall in Windsor had little if any reason for the end of Kresges, changing times and attitudes in shopping habits did it. Woolworths at one time the largest retailer in the world. now try and find them, the last Woolorth branded stores closed in England about three years ago.
  In 1962 came the dicounters,K-Mart Woolco, Target, and Walmart.this was the demiss of many downtowns,shopping habits changed the dime store was no longer the go to endall location.
  Shopping habits change over time, now we have Costco,Future Shop Bestbuy,Lowes, Home Depot,whats next?

• We got our wedding cake there. $35.00

• Kresge's had atmosphere no other store could even hope to have many a happy saturday was spent in that store with my grandmother perusing the alies everything was sort of thrown togeather with those little glass deviders eddie francis says windsor has vibrance there hasn't been vibrancy in Windsor since the mid 50's-60's boy!! i miss downtown windsor of the past

• The wonderful floors!

• all those beautiful memories for sure. I applied for my first job there, along with every other girl I think.
  Remember the floorwalker in his black suit with the rose? Kids today will never have these memories. All the new stores are such vacant, empty cold atmospheres.

• Kresge's was founded by Sebastion Spering Kresge. An interesting fact that a lot of people don't realize, is that in the 1970's, the company officially changed it's name to Kmart. However, it did retain many of its smaller stores, and they kept the name S. S. Kresge. In fact as many people will remember, Windsor had both stores. Personally, I was a teenager when Kresge's closed, but I always liked it more than Kmart. Nicer atmosphere, friendlier service, better food and generally better prices. It's a pity we've lost so much to "progress". By the way, Sears now owns Kmart/Kresge's corporation.

• Last year just before the holidays my neighbour gave me a small artificial Christmas tree and a couple boxs of old ornaments the price sticker on the boxs says SS Kresge 79 cents after looking at the photo i realized when they built the RBC bank they kept the original door locations minus the pelisher street entrance one thing i remember about the doors the push bar had the store name stamped in to it,it"s like the ghost of Kresge's still haunts Ouellette

• I worked at Kresges in my mid-teens, for about 2 1/2yr. during the mid sixties. Since I was still in school, I worked Thurs. & Fri. nights and all day Saturdays. Busy....busy...busy and more bustling is how I remember Kresges! In no other store could you hear a cacaphony of wonderful sounds. The creaky wooden floors, tinkling of coffee cups, the budgies squawking and the Beach boys 45rpm records being played from the record counter along the front windows!!! I remember also that dark, scary stockroom, with the wide stairway just off the back (Pelissier St.) doors. I worked down there during the Christmas rush, marking/labelling everything from cups and decorations, to underwear and paper goods. Mrs. Walters taught me how to operate the ticket machines, the kind that ran a pin through the price tag, & attached it to clothing. Also, Miss Luck, the lady with the pencil behind her ear, who ran the portable cake/pie/dessert counter just inside the front doors, right near the cigarette counter!........ahhhhhh YES....those were the days!!!

• WOW memories. I remember back in the summer of 1967 working at Adams Furniture as their truck driver hearing crowds cheering, I went up to the top floor of the building and threw open a window. It was the cheering fans of the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Also went into Kresge's everyday for coffee and lunch sometimes. My mum made me samdwiches for lunch and I had french fries & gravy at the back lunch counter. Coffee was not in cups or mugs, but came in disposable plastic liners that fit into conical shaped holders. I used to visit the large budgie cage to talk to the birds and teach them dirty words. Loved the creaky wooden floors and the heavy chrome around the windows and doors. Best lunch was grilled cheese sandwich & fries with gravy! Before that I worked a short time at K-Mart at Huron line & Tecumseh in the furniture dept. I had to wear a suit daily and had to go to Sam's Department store on Ottawa Street to get one.
  Ahhhh memories!