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Cinderella and the prince boogie on down to their equivalent of Rick Dees' "Disco Duck", while the stepsisters do their Statler and Waldorf imitation.
Friends pose outside Marshall Field's flagship store in downtown Chicago for one last photo before the venerable chain ditched the name to go with the unwanted Macy's.
Designed as a smaller version of the downtown Chicago Marshall Field store, this Oak Park location, at the corner of Lake and Harlem, was closed in the '80's, along with its downtown Evanston counterpart. Customers of the closed stores were encouraged to shop at Oakbrook (Oak Park customers) or Old Orchard (Evanston patrons).
I could be totally off on this assumption but it seems like my colorful photos are getting more views than my black and white ones recently. Maybe because everyone else is as sick of dealing with (and, therefore, looking at) winter as I am.
I originally took this shot to be colorful (as Macy's had its spring awnings up) but I ended up being much more captivated by it in black and white. So up it goes in black and white.
Still, maybe the color version may eventually end up on here as even I get sick of black and white as it moves into the colorful months.
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39/50 on (New) Score Me! (7.8)
Another view from my dorm room in 2000. You can see Lake Michigan iced over, behind Marshall Fields.
This roll of film was forgotten in a bag, and developed six years later, which probably accounts for the all the grain. :)
Marshall Field, 1835 -1906
This giant of commerce is commemorated in a memorial created in by the two men who later would be responsible for the Lincoln Memorial – architect Henry Bacon & sculptor Daniel Chester French. Field, who went from store clerk to Chicago’s richest man, developed his famous company into the world’s largest wholesale and retail dry goods enterprise. French’s statue, the sad-faced woman titled “Memory,” holds oak leaves, a symbol of calm courage. The caduceus on the base, the staff of Mercury, is used today mostly to represent medicine. But we are told that here, it stands for commerce. Mercury was the classical god of commerce – as well as of skill, eloquence, cleverness, travel and thievery.
A panoramic of the escalators at the soon-to-not-be Marshall Field's. I just let the stitching software to it's own thing putting this together, which is why the escalators go all Escher in there.
At Market Square in Lake Forest. This was the second Marshall Field's ever opened. It's been described as a "pretty little jewel box of a store"
I love that the store still has "Marshall Field's green" awnings, even though Macy's color is red. I wonder if Lake Forest wouldn't let them change that.
Designed as a smaller version of the downtown Chicago Marshall Field store, this Oak Park location, at the corner of Lake and Harlem, was closed in the '80's, along with its downtown Evanston counterpart. Customers of the closed stores were encouraged to shop at Oakbrook (Oak Park customers) or Old Orchard (Evanston patrons).
The view in the Chicago Pedway from the northwest area of the Macy's (former Marshall Fields) building. Looking east.
This photo is part of a numbered series of photos inside the Pedway that I took in April 2022. The Pedway is a network of underground pedestrian tunnels, passageways and connections in downtown Chicago.