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20th-Century Retailing in Downtown Detroit (MI) (Images of America)

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As Detroit developed northward from the riverfront, Woodward Avenue become a mecca for retail, restaurants, and products and services. The 1870s and 1880s saw many independent merchants open their doors. By 1890, a new form of one-stop shopping had developed: the department store. Detroit’s venerable Newcomb Endicott and Company used to be closely followed by other trailblazers: J. L. Hudson Company, Crowley Milner and Company, and the Ernst Kern Company. At its peak within the 1950s, the Woodward Avenue area boasted over four million square feet of retail, making it considered one of The united states’s preferred retail destinations. Other Detroit emporiums such as the homegrown S. S. Kresge Company set trends in consumer culture. Generations made the trek downtown for back-to-school events, Easter shows, holiday windows, and circle of relatives luncheons. Then, with the advent of suburban shopping centers, downtown stores started competing with their very own branch locations. By the 1970s and 1980s, the dominoes started to fall as both chain and independent stores abandoned the once prosperous Woodward Avenue.

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