Toledo's Historical Shopping Hot Spot | Toledo Stories: Lets All Go Down to Tiedtkes | Full Film

Before there were franchises of chain stores or superstores in every town, Toledo had a department store that was the center of the community. Also, downtown had a vast array of theaters where people spent the best nights of their lives. For generations of people in Northwest Ohio, Downtown Toledo was a hot spot, offering plenty of big city entertainment and shopping.
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[@theresamarvin1220]

I worked Christmas season at Tiedtke’s in the toy department. Had to take the bus. My mother didn’t believe that a store should sell a variety of merchandise, but when it came time to make her delicious fruitcakes, she knew That she could only buy the fruit at Tiedtke’s. Many years later, my son talked me into working at Toys ‘R’ Us, and I had the same manager! 33:12

[@thedude19766]

For me, whenever this program about Tiedtke's I get a Christmas tradition of watching it

[@jimmaxfield6299]

My mother work at Tiedtkes from the mid 1950s until they closed. Sometimes when I got out of school ( Glenwood); I would take the bus down to the store, hang out and with my mother take the bus home

[@dawnmeade2351]

I remember the guy that worked the elevator and it had a lot of doors

[@David-nx2vm]

In the Polish neighborhood I grew up at Lagrange and Central, the ultimate insult you could hurl at someone was “…you can kiss my a$$ in Tiedtke’s window!” Because of the crowds, Tiedtke’s display windows was where the most people would see it. What a time…

[@user-lo2xm1ri1x]

That’s when Toledo was Toledo miss tiedtks a lot

[@rickwisnieswki9584]

Back at a time when Toledo was not so damn bad it was a pretty good town so sure piece of s*** hole now