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So many memories! Candy, thin mints, glasses, Boy Scout items, suits for Easter, Christmas gifts, Thanksgiving parade, the giant flag…all wonderful! If we were going to Hudsons, we dressed up a bit. It was another world!
Thank you, Chris.
Fascinating and well done 🏆
Oh yeah the windows at Christmas, Santa after the parade. Toys toys toys. Chicken pot pie and my mom and sisters Maurice salads etc. etc.
As I look back on the Detroit of the 60's and early 70's it dawns on me how much I took for granted. Hudson's being one of those treasures that I truly did not appreciate as much as it deserved. Now I know. Now I understand the treasures that my generation took for granted.
My family was drawn more to Montgomery Wards, Sears, and the old Federal's stores. Their reasoning was that downtown meant parking fees, while the inner city stores provided parking lots that were free. But every once in a while we would go to Hudson's. I would ride the escalators and the old fashioned labor operated elevators. The ladies who operated them would announce each floor. I of course as a kid waited to hear, "12th floor, children's toys…." Later as a teen it would be "25th floor records." Then as a young adult, it would be electronics (I forget the floor but I purchased a stereo there). I remember over time how the merchandise would change. From portable record players and large consoles to 8 tracks, cassettes and then CD players. I left Detroit at the dawn of the digital age.
I had a Hudson's charge card as a young family man. Though I did visit the North Land store, my favorite by far was downtown. After graduating from high school I worked there for a short time as a "stock boy". I actually had fun. Some stock workers would be assigned to a department after reporting for work each day. Others would work receiving merchandise and storing them until they were needed. My first wife worked there in the admin offices doing clerical work. I think nearly everyone in my day worked there for a a time in their lives. Some made it a career.
One thing that stands out is the service. You actually had a sales person assist you unlike the modern day Walmarts and Targets.
Sometimes I would go into Hudson's to sit at one of the snack bars or walk around and do sociological observations (girl watch).
Hudson's was to us what Macy's was to New York. I remember the pain in my heart when I saw the demolition online. It was not only a piece of my childhood, it was a huge slice of my early life. From occasional visits as a small child to regular excursion in my twenties and thirties, Hudson's was a part of my life it was suppose to always be there. Where was Santa Clause gonna go when he came in the parade? He would receive the key to the city every year from whoever was mayor at the time right in front of the store. That was the high point of the Hudson's parade. My granddad took me, and I took my kids. We didn't mind the cold. Santa Clause was coming to town. Coming to Hudson's.
On recent visits to my hometown I have seen the new Hudson's building. I am both excited and yet sad. It is good to see this new development. But at the same time, it reminds me that nothing is permanent. As you panned the streets in the last part of the video, it showed how much things had changed. Those streets used to be so crowded. Not just one or two pedestrians crossing, but crowds rushing across the streets. The sidewalks were crammed with people going to the shops, and many going to Hudson's. Now they are only memories in the mind of an old man. 🙂 Another great video!!!! Thank you.
I shopped at Hudsons in the mall never in downtown Detroit
One of my aunts worked there for over 20 years. She took me and my sister there to get our ears pierced.
Yes America looking better all the time ? Who needs Hudson's, Sears or Mall's ? We have Amazon ! You think most people look like Wal-Mart slobs now, Just wait till all we have is delivery clothes to wear ! You don't know what you have till it's gone
I remember both Hudson's and CROWLEYS. Crowley may have been a smaller operation than Hudson's, but I loved the way both stores were connected by a multi story enclosed bridge that contained slightly curved hardwood floors and spanned over an alley. You could go from one store to another without having to go outside.
The riots of '67 began the fall. Before, Hudson was open until 9PM, After, it closed by 5PM. The streets of Woodward were never the same. Also, white flight really picked up after the riots and commercial business followed.
Went to a professional book fair there with my teacher mother as a young child, and was taken to Hudson's at Christmastime a few times; all I remember of the latter is being blinded by glittering things in every direction! I went to a couple of demonstrations protesting the plan to demolish the building in 98, and left town before the demolition itself because I realized the futility of trying to save so many important buildings in an era when tearing things down was the name of the game in Detroit. Ironically, the city now has a policy of preserving buildings that ought not to be, and letting investors superficially patch them for turnover. I think this is a direct response to the loss of buildings like Hudson's decades ago. The new buildings on the site, I don't know . . . Thanks for posting.
Montgomery wards was another store that I grew up with. It was sad losing them. We shopped at the one in Dearborn.
Yes, I loved going to Hudson's downtown with my grandmother in the early and mid 1960s, we — she, my older sister, and I — took the bus from 7 Mile and Evergreen area where we lived, and my sister and I always wore our best dresses for those occasions and were always fascinated by this huge, bright, exciting store, and we always had lunch when we went there, too — man, we loved it so much. It was so special.
I worked at the Hudson's in Westland in my late teens cause I thought Hudson's was a great store. I still felt a pang of sentiment when they tore the downtown store down, and then Hudson's itself became, what, Macy's, I think? I remember at Christmas, too, the downtown store and their windows were decorated like crazy and were just beautiful to us (and then we'd go to the Winter Festival at Cobo Hall while down there too, though that's not in your video! LOL)
I moved out of Detroit area to West Michigan 22 years ago but, Detroit will ALWAYS be home to me, I'm trying to convince my husband to move into the area, and in the meantime, man — I truly love all your videos, reminding me how much I love and miss my home town, and even at my age, teaching me some stuff about places I didn't even know about. Thanks for all your hard work!