Do You Remember Lazarus Department Store?

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2022
  • F&R Lazarus & Company - commonly known as Lazarus - was a regional department store retail chain operating primarily in the U.S. Midwest, and based in Columbus, Ohio. For over 150 years, Lazarus was influential in the American retail industry, particularly during the early 20th century as a founding partner in Federated Department Stores, and continued until the nameplate was retired on March 6, 2005, in favor of Macy's
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  • @helenjones568
    @helenjones568 6 місяців тому +3

    Awe. I remember as a child, going to that special gift shop for kids! I loved buying for my mom and dad!!! It was so much fun!!!! Pretty Christmas pins were in there!!!! WOW! I forgot about that. I even bought a small mini tool set for my dad! Loved it!!! Good memories!

  • @DJIcenhower
    @DJIcenhower Рік тому +8

    What a wonderful trip down memory lane! As you said, a trip downtown to Lazarus was a very special treat. I remember loving to go to the 6th floor toy department. They would have all kinds of special events there. One I particularly remember was a miniature circus display. It was an adventure in to paradise. I was always amazed and enjoyed playing with the foot x-ray boxes in the shoe department. Amazed that I never got cancer from them. Many of our family worked and were managers at the downtown location. One special treat was going to one of their restaurants and getting their signature celery dressing (either wet or dry) in the Colonial Room. The parking garages were neat with the spiral exits. In one of the garages was the Lazarus Annex, another special treat.
    It was neat seeing in one picture, down the street was Mill's Cafeteria, another treat when going downtown. Of course, everyone remembers the Christmas window. Best memories were with our family out front in the cold with snow all around us. The lights from the window along with the sparks coming off the top of the street cars, made for childhood memories that I will cherish forever. Then, of course, the street decorations on High Street were amazing! Columbus will never be the same without Lazarus and Big Bear.

  • @virginiamartinez5160
    @virginiamartinez5160 Рік тому +10

    I spent every Christmas there in the downtown store & they had the most beautiful windows at Christmas time in the 70s I can remember as a child shopping with my mother, Then as a teenager in the 80s we we're introduced to the Northland Mall which also had a Lazarus attached to the mall. If you have ever watched The Christmas Story that's what our downtown Lazarus Store was like growing up in the 70s & 80s as a kid, Our Lazarus Santa Claus,Every child received a Coloring Book,Crayons, a Toy & a Brown Lunchbag with fruit & candy inside & then take your photo with Santa. Those were my childhood memories of Christmas, the 70s were the best years as a kid.

  • @boomette
    @boomette Рік тому +2

    I grew up in Columbus, on Town Street. In the fifties I remember going to the marionette shows there as a child. We knew the elevator operator, Mimi, who was so kind to me and my siblings. I have nothing but warm memories of the Lazarus of my childhood. The Christmas windows were magical then!

  • @bethcotterill-fg3xp
    @bethcotterill-fg3xp 8 місяців тому +2

    So many memories of lazarus we would go every weekend, we would stop at mills restaurant and I would have a cake doughnut and glass of grape juice. There was always something new to discover at lazarus. Miss it so much.

  • @lancewright617
    @lancewright617 Рік тому +2

    This takes me back to my childhood I remember the restaurant they had

  • @dorseylandria6119
    @dorseylandria6119 Рік тому +3

    Christmas time at the downtown store. ❤️

  • @NevaehsThriftyNiftyTreasures
    @NevaehsThriftyNiftyTreasures 9 місяців тому +2

    We made the 2 hour trip every Christmas to Lazarus as a child in the 80s and we always ate at the Spaghetti Warehouse before heading home to Scioto County…. I just recently bought a storage unit in Columbus full of vintage clothes boots and shoes and found many items still with tags on them from Lazarus department store ❤❤❤

  • @briansmith2207
    @briansmith2207 5 місяців тому +1

    Great memories. My very first job was at Lazarus Westland trained at the downtown location.

  • @johndef5075
    @johndef5075 6 місяців тому +2

    We had one at Kingsdale near where I grew up. Also remember riding the bus downtown to shop the Lazarus there. And Christmas shopping at Northland. Such a different time.....

    • @sodoffbaldrick3038
      @sodoffbaldrick3038 5 місяців тому

      Your memories are mine as well. I graduated from UAHS in 1975, and remember having a study hall right before and right after lunch. Those long lunches were a great time to walk over to Kingsdale, head into Lazarus, and, being a girl, spend most of my time and money at the cosmetic counters. Some weekends, my best friend and I would take the bus downtown and shop all day, with lunch at the Mills restaurant. Seems like a million years ago.

  • @timothyspurling2102
    @timothyspurling2102 2 роки тому +3

    You did a great job on lazarus

  • @jg90049
    @jg90049 4 місяці тому +2

    I lived in Columbus from mid-65 through the summer of '67. I thought Lazarus was plain vanilla, but my point of reference was Neiman-Marcus.

  • @PurplePuppy2006
    @PurplePuppy2006 2 роки тому +2

    Oh I was just about to ask you if you knew what this store was. But hay, you made a video already. Nice 👍. I’ve heard of Lazarus before obviously never been or seen ever only sightings were on the internet.

  • @sunsetrecords2548
    @sunsetrecords2548 2 роки тому +3

    I mean to start out as a small booth selling shoes from a German to being the first with airconditioning, electrical and escalators is amazing. It was a joy to experience Lazarus back in the day shame they aren't around great video!.

  • @raycampbell8814
    @raycampbell8814 Рік тому +2

    One of the elevators at Christmas time was turned into a rocket ship to Santa on the higher floor

  • @deborahchesser7375
    @deborahchesser7375 9 місяців тому +1

    Even if I had a dime for every lap I made around Eastland Mall I’d still be rich. What I’d give for another summer day about 77’ at Eastland, such laid back times.

  • @plushtimetv
    @plushtimetv 2 роки тому +3

    Can you do The Mall at Robinson for the next Mall Monday? The mall is not even close to dead!

    • @EricCProductions76
      @EricCProductions76  2 роки тому +1

      I will put it on my list, I can't promise you that it will be the next Monday Mall Madness video. I have alot of requests for malls.

  • @philipmeckley5154
    @philipmeckley5154 Рік тому +1

    I worked at the cash office at Northland (and briefly at Westland) for a few years back in the early 80's. Made some great friends and had some great times.

  • @dorseylandria6119
    @dorseylandria6119 Рік тому +1

    I worked at the northland store.

  • @patriciajackson2554
    @patriciajackson2554 2 роки тому +1

    I remember both Shillitos and Lazarus well. Shopped them both extensively in the 80s and 90s in Louisville.
    There's some Louisville stores you may want to do a story on: Bacons, Ben Snyder, Stewarts, Bashford Manor Mall and Nlue Boar Cafeteria

    • @EricCProductions76
      @EricCProductions76  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for all of your suggestions. I will put it on my list.

    • @patriciajackson2554
      @patriciajackson2554 2 роки тому

      @@EricCProductions76 here is another suggestion...the long gone but never forgotten and much missed Methuen Mall in Methuen, Massachusetts....the highlight of tenants being York Steak House.

    • @johndef5075
      @johndef5075 6 місяців тому

      Yes! We shopped at Shillitos when visiting our Cincinnati cousins. Remembering buying some Lou Brock Converse tennis shoes there😅

  • @drb2262
    @drb2262 2 роки тому +2

    Can you do a video on Spotslyvania Town Center?

    • @EricCProductions76
      @EricCProductions76  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for your suggestion. I will put it on my list.

  • @juanserrano5629
    @juanserrano5629 2 роки тому +1

    Keep with LA Canasta furnishings video for to Group Famsa and you'll find information about the company I promise you'll do great 😇📲👍

  • @kingclover1395
    @kingclover1395 Рік тому +3

    Too bad somebody didn't buy it back from Macy's and change the name back to Lazarus, because then you could have said that they raised Lazarus from the dead. ha ha.

  • @sirekumasutra7022
    @sirekumasutra7022 2 роки тому +1

    11:45 I think that is Lima Mall in Ohio. Saw that exterior this month.

    • @EricCProductions76
      @EricCProductions76  2 роки тому

      that's awesome

    • @robinsonstegard538
      @robinsonstegard538 Рік тому

      Yes, you are correct. I spent 5 years there in the 80s cooking for the Skyview Restaurant. I did not realize how good the Lazarus family treated us as employees until I worked other places.

  • @thebestchannel5456
    @thebestchannel5456 Рік тому +2

    Can Lazarus be brought back from the dead?

  • @American-Motors-Corporation
    @American-Motors-Corporation 2 роки тому +1

    Do a video on a store called, twin fair, hint there's a gold circle connection!!

  • @user-fv9zk9lz2q
    @user-fv9zk9lz2q Рік тому +1

    You go to all the trouble to put together a very nice presentation, but you can't be bothered to get the
    pronunciation of "Shillito's" correct?? It's not shell-ee'-to's -- it's SHILL'-A-TOES!! Geez.

    • @EricCProductions76
      @EricCProductions76  Рік тому

      Thank you for your correction. Here is a my heartfelt apology for butchering Shillitos in that video: ua-cam.com/video/KRRRxWnP72A/v-deo.html

  • @lancewright617
    @lancewright617 Рік тому +2

    This takes me back to my childhood I remember the restaurant they had