Since there seems to be some confusion, a brief timeline: Dayton's acquired J L Hudson's in 1969. The Dayton Hudson Corp. acquired Marshall Field's in 1990. 2000, Dayton Hudson changed their corporate name to Target, the higher profile subsidiary. In 2001, all Dayton Hudson stores were rebranded with the Marshall Field's nameplate. 2004, Target sold Marshall Field Group to May Department Stores. In February 2005, May merged with Federation Department Stores, owner of Macy's. In September of 2005, Marshall Fields were renamed Macy's...and it's been circling the bowl ever since.
Wow! So many great facts! I loved Marshall Fields. I could make it back and forth to shop the bargain basement during my lunch hour from the office when I worked downtown. So many fond Christmas memories too! The windows were spectacular, the Walnut Room and the tree are unforgettable. Still love Frango Mints!!! The gift boxes were the best too! I was sorry to see them change. TFS
My grandmother, mother and I used to drive from South Chicago to down town to shop at Marshall Fields. We loved that store. My great grandmother was an employee there for twenty years. They always sold quality items and at Christmas my Mother would take me down town on the Dan Ryan L train to walk the streets and look at the beautiful breath taking window decorations. Those were truly the days.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I grew up in Prairie Shores on the lake and Marshall Field’s was magical as a child. My parents took us to see “the windows” at Christmas at night and to see the the tree inside. Words cannot describe how beautiful that store was at Christmas. I shopped there until my 30’s. Still remember the girls who worked the elevators. Macys can never live up to what Fields was from service to selection. It’s one of the most memorable places of my childhood growing up there.
I first visited Marshall Field & Company in 1980 with my late Uncle who was a Litigation Lawyer for a Large Insurance Company. He went to Chicago a lot on business. I totally fell in love with the "Cathedral of All Department Stores...The Grandest Grande Dame." When I lived in Chicago in the early 2000's...I shopped at Marshall Field's all the time...they might have thought I worked for them. macy*s really messed up by getting rid of such an iconic name/brand. I love macy*s in Manhattan...but like many and I'm not even a Chicagoan will never forgive macy*s for doing away with Marshall Field's. One plus...is it's still a Department Store and still has the beautiful "Walnut Room Restaurant " on the Seventh Floor...it's over 115 years old. They also still have those beautiful Stainless Steel sides Escalators from the 1930's!
Unfortunately, Macy’s is more concerned about accounting than quality. Last time I went to the Walnut Room, it smelled like mold and was just weird. Made me very sad.
Marshall Fields was an incredible store. I would love to see someone with vision restore this bldg. Though the bldg. itself is beautiful Macy's has destroyed it. It's now as common as dirt. No elegance, no magic, no nothing to make a great shopping experience.
The goo-brain ninnies who bought Marshall Field miscalculated when they renamed it and turned it into just another generic Macy's. Should have kept the name, and the cachet, prestige and history that went along with it.
THIS WAS A GREAT VIDEO. It is so sad that we have to constantly lose some beautiful iconic stores in the name of progress. There's nothing that can compare to seeing the shop windows at Christmas time
It is stunning to realize how many of the great department stores of North America (from luxury brands down to working class havens) - icons, each - to which we owe our whole sensibility of consumerism (good or bad) collapsed within a twenty year period...of course we can blame the earthly vicissitudes of the post war shopping mall revolution (but then again look at the malls - they ultimately fared even worse) expanding too rapidly or expansing too slowly, bad mergers and even worse acquisitions, failures to adjust to demographics, markets, etc. But there is a key element on which no one ever seems to comment that is also responsible: the dream of elegance, of grace, which has since been supplanted by the paradox of democracy: equal access (Make no mistake: anyone shopping at K-mart still wished they could be shopping at Marshall Fields or Neiman Marcus, if only just once.) Of course everyone SHOULD have equal access - but once upon a time that meant access to a way of being, not a method of appearing. Now everyone cynically knows you just have to look expensive (no matter how tacky and glam trashy you are) to assert social capital; behaviour, composure, comportment need not apply. And it is this triumph of appearing over being (hand in hand with online consumption) that has also contributed to the radical shifts in retail that have brought down that great ceremonial experience of the department store.
And make them all the same. People in Chicago were freaking out because there was a rumor that Macy’s wanted to remove the Field’s clocks. They didn’t but I wouldn’t put it past them
@@buymymovie I grew up downtown and Fields was one of the most interesting stores in the world. Something always going on, so much creativity and joy. Macys has made no effort at all. The store is just tired, vanilla and boring. That’s what we get when creative people are fired because of the bean counters. Bean counters have zero creativity and have taken over all large American stores. What the did to Fields was a disgrace.
MACY'S will still operate the first 7 floors as a department store, but it has sold off the top offices and shop floors (6 floors) to a developer for $27 million. MACY'S has been liquidating its store's real estate portfolio to get out of debt.
I used to go up to shop at the Hudson Bay Company in Vancouver on Boxing Day when I lived in Seattle. Would take the Amtrak up. Got such beautiful stuff (the exchange rate was great- sorry!) but was so disappointed when Macy’s bought it. They destroy the individuality of every store they buy.
Not quite, it's the other way around...Dayton Hudson purchased Marshall Fields. A brief timeline: Dayton's acquired J L Hudson's in 1969. The Dayton Hudson Corp. acquired Marshall Field's in 1990. 2000, Dayton Hudson changed their corporate name to Target, the higher profile subsidiary. In 2001, all Dayton Hudson stores were rebranded with the Marshall Field's nameplate. 2004, Target sold Marshall Field Group to May Department Stores. In February 2005, May merged with Federation Department Stores, owner of Macy's. In September of 2005, Marshall Fields were renamed Macy's...and it's been circling the bowl ever since.
My only comment is. Please turn your volumn up when you do a video. Don't say it's your phone. I watch a lot of videos on You Tube. 90% are good and I don't have to cup my hand around my speaker.
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Since there seems to be some confusion, a brief timeline: Dayton's acquired J L Hudson's in 1969. The Dayton Hudson Corp. acquired Marshall Field's in 1990. 2000, Dayton Hudson changed their corporate name to Target, the higher profile subsidiary. In 2001, all Dayton Hudson stores were rebranded with the Marshall Field's nameplate. 2004, Target sold Marshall Field Group to May Department Stores. In February 2005, May merged with Federation Department Stores, owner of Macy's. In September of 2005, Marshall Fields were renamed Macy's...and it's been circling the bowl ever since.
Wow! So many great facts! I loved Marshall Fields. I could make it back and forth to shop the bargain basement during my lunch hour from the office when I worked downtown. So many fond Christmas memories too! The windows were spectacular, the Walnut Room and the tree are unforgettable. Still love Frango Mints!!! The gift boxes were the best too! I was sorry to see them change. TFS
Me too. Macy's should have left well enough alone.
Agreed. Lost the quality and class.
I loved doing the same. MF&Co was incredible. What a treasure from my early adulthood working downtown in law.
Another Chicago icon gone. It was beautiful as it was.
My grandmother, mother and I used to drive from South Chicago to down town to shop at Marshall Fields. We loved that store. My great grandmother was an employee there for twenty years. They always sold quality items and at Christmas my
Mother would take me down town on the Dan Ryan L train to walk the streets and look at the beautiful breath taking window decorations. Those were truly the days.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I grew up in Prairie Shores on the lake and Marshall Field’s was magical as a child. My parents took us to see “the windows” at Christmas at night and to see the the tree inside. Words cannot describe how beautiful that store was at Christmas. I shopped there until my 30’s. Still remember the girls who worked the elevators. Macys can never live up to what Fields was from service to selection. It’s one of the most memorable places of my childhood growing up there.
I first visited Marshall Field & Company in 1980 with my late Uncle who was a Litigation Lawyer for a Large Insurance Company. He went to Chicago a lot on business. I totally fell in love with the "Cathedral of All Department Stores...The Grandest Grande Dame." When I lived in Chicago in the early 2000's...I shopped at Marshall Field's all the time...they might have thought I worked for them. macy*s really messed up by getting rid of such an iconic name/brand. I love macy*s in Manhattan...but like many and I'm not even a Chicagoan will never forgive macy*s for doing away with Marshall Field's. One plus...is it's still a Department Store and still has the beautiful "Walnut Room Restaurant " on the Seventh Floor...it's over 115 years old. They also still have those beautiful Stainless Steel sides Escalators from the 1930's!
What a well made video. I've only walked through the now Macy's once, but I really want to go try a pot pie in the Walnut Room now.
Unfortunately, Macy’s is more concerned about accounting than quality. Last time I went to the Walnut Room, it smelled like mold and was just weird. Made me very sad.
Oh, how much I miss Marshall fields 😢 a very smart man. I bet he is rolling in his grave
Thank you!
Marshall Fields was an incredible store. I would love to see someone with vision restore this bldg. Though the bldg. itself is beautiful Macy's has destroyed it. It's now as common as dirt. No elegance, no magic, no nothing to make a great shopping experience.
beautiful photos - love the displays they had
So many similarities to John Wanamaker in Philadelphia. What a grand
elegant store it was. Designated an historic site so it is protected.
They were both designed by architect Daniel Burnham's firm, D.H. Burnham & Co.
The goo-brain ninnies who bought Marshall Field miscalculated when they renamed it and turned it into just another generic Macy's. Should have kept the name, and the cachet, prestige and history that went along with it.
Totally ...Macy's is levels below it
THIS WAS A GREAT VIDEO. It is so sad that we have to constantly lose some beautiful iconic stores in the name of progress. There's nothing that can compare to seeing the shop windows at Christmas time
It is stunning to realize how many of the great department stores of North America (from luxury brands down to working class havens) - icons, each - to which we owe our whole sensibility of consumerism (good or bad) collapsed within a twenty year period...of course we can blame the earthly vicissitudes of the post war shopping mall revolution (but then again look at the malls - they ultimately fared even worse) expanding too rapidly or expansing too slowly, bad mergers and even worse acquisitions, failures to adjust to demographics, markets, etc. But there is a key element on which no one ever seems to comment that is also responsible: the dream of elegance, of grace, which has since been supplanted by the paradox of democracy: equal access (Make no mistake: anyone shopping at K-mart still wished they could be shopping at Marshall Fields or Neiman Marcus, if only just once.) Of course everyone SHOULD have equal access - but once upon a time that meant access to a way of being, not a method of appearing. Now everyone cynically knows you just have to look expensive (no matter how tacky and glam trashy you are) to assert social capital; behaviour, composure, comportment need not apply. And it is this triumph of appearing over being (hand in hand with online consumption) that has also contributed to the radical shifts in retail that have brought down that great ceremonial experience of the department store.
MACYS--Killer of department stores--they buy out the competition and then close them
And make them all the same. People in Chicago were freaking out because there was a rumor that Macy’s wanted to remove the Field’s clocks. They didn’t but I wouldn’t put it past them
@@edl6398 that store is a landmark.. destroyed by them...
@@buymymovie I grew up downtown and Fields was one of the most interesting stores in the world. Something always going on, so much creativity and joy. Macys has made no effort at all. The store is just tired, vanilla and boring. That’s what we get when creative people are fired because of the bean counters. Bean counters have zero creativity and have taken over all large American stores. What the did to Fields was a disgrace.
MACY'S will still operate the first 7 floors as a department store, but it has sold off the top offices and shop floors (6 floors) to a developer for $27 million. MACY'S has been liquidating its store's real estate portfolio to get out of debt.
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I, remember when Hudson's, became Marshall Field's, and the Hudson's/Marshall Field's Department Stores are now Macy's.
MACYS killed them too.
I used to go up to shop at the Hudson Bay Company in Vancouver on Boxing Day when I lived in Seattle. Would take the Amtrak up. Got such beautiful stuff (the exchange rate was great- sorry!) but was so disappointed when Macy’s bought it. They destroy the individuality of every store they buy.
You should include to of Pittsburgh's iconic department stores, Kaufmann's and Joseph Horne Compny.
Hell no. You keep yours. We'll keep ours !
We'll. We don't have ours any more lol
Toledo briefly had Marshall Field's after it bought out Dayton Hudson Corp. and before it ended up a Macy's.
Not quite, it's the other way around...Dayton Hudson purchased Marshall Fields. A brief timeline: Dayton's acquired J L Hudson's in 1969. The Dayton Hudson Corp. acquired Marshall Field's in 1990. 2000, Dayton Hudson changed their corporate name to Target, the higher profile subsidiary. In 2001, all Dayton Hudson stores were rebranded with the Marshall Field's nameplate. 2004, Target sold Marshall Field Group to May Department Stores. In February 2005, May merged with Federation Department Stores, owner of Macy's. In September of 2005, Marshall Fields were renamed Macy's...and it's been circling the bowl ever since.
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My only comment is. Please turn your volumn up when you do a video. Don't say it's your phone. I watch a lot of videos on You Tube. 90% are good and I don't have to cup my hand around my speaker.
Maybe you need to invest in a hearing aid
I think you should go back a read what I wrote. If you can't under such simple English, the problem is yours, not mine.
@@robertmccuistion9218 if I can’t under such simple English?? I think you are the one that doesn’t UNDERSTAND English