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Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale retail history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale retail history. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

McCrory's downtown Fort Lauderdale - a five and dime bows to suburban growth

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  McCrory’s Store 221 South Andrews Ave. Fort Lauderdale, FL – Closed 1985 By Jane Feehan The Great Depression didn’t bring Fort Lauderdale ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Fort Lauderdale's first department store - Pioneer Department Store

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By Jane Feehan  Frank Stranahan’s New River trading post, opened in Fort Lauderdale in 1895, served as antecedent to the Pioneer Departmen...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Where Fort Lauderdale shopped in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

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  Downtown Fort Lauderdale circa 1950 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Many remember the big department stores in Fort Lauderdale, bu...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Chemist Shop on Las Olas Boulevard - once "America's most unusual drugstore"

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Florida State Archives/ Dept. of Commerce  By Jane Feehan   A quiet drug store on Las Olas served as the unofficial hub of that boulevard ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Sears story in Fort Lauderdale didn't begin with Searstown

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Andrews Avenue 1939 Florida State Archives/ Florida Memory By Jane Feehan Sears, Roebuck and Company, founded in 1886, has had its ups and...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Coral Ridge Shopping Plaza opens in Fort Lauderdale with Britts as anchor - 1962

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Today: new name, new stores By Jane Feehan Construction plans for Coral Ridge Shopping Plaza were announced August, 1960.  James Hu...