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Post# 78674   8/16/2005 at 09:51 (6,799 days old) by spiralactivator ()   |   | |
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Lovely Hotpoint set! But I'm not familiar with Eaton's. Where was it based? Is it still in business? |
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Post# 78687 , Reply# 1   8/16/2005 at 10:39 (6,799 days old) by Agiflaw ()   |   | |
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Nice machines indeed!!...That console reminds me of the KM machines from that period. |
Post# 78692 , Reply# 3   8/16/2005 at 11:00 (6,799 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)   |   | |
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Post# 78708 , Reply# 4   8/16/2005 at 14:03 (6,799 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Eatons was a national dept store chain and Viking was their store brand for appliances. They went bankrupt some 5 or 6 years ago and Sears Canada bought it out. Funny thing is that Kmart ceased operations in Canada about 10 years ago now they've bought Sears Canada porton. There's only one large nationwide dept store chain left in Canada now and that's the Hudson Bay Co struggling to survive after 300+ years. Sears in Canada was a 1955 amalgamation of Sears Roebuck and Toronto based dept store Robert Simpson known as (Simpsons). Simpsons, unlike Eatons and Hudson Bay (the Bay) was not nationwide and only had stores in Ontario and Quebec whereas Eatons and the Bay operated everywhere. They partnered with Sears Roebuck in 1955 and began opening "Simpson-Sears" stores nationwide in the ever growing suburbs, these Simpson Sears stores were never built as downtown stores anywhere and were never built in any city in Ontario or Quebec that had a stand alone Simpsons stores within 25 miles. Simpsons itself filed for bankruptcy back in the mid 80's I think and the Simpson-Sears partnership was reformed into Sears Canada, dropping the Simpson name altogether. Not sure who owns the complete outfit,,Sears/Kmart obviously owns a good chunk of it but not all. It's all quite confusing these store wars. |
Post# 78721 , Reply# 5   8/16/2005 at 15:37 (6,798 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Interesting POD and thanks for the history lesson on Sears/Simpson's and Eaton's Pete. There are many similarities to GE, but yet so different! I remember being in a Simpson-Sears in Winnipeg years ago and marveled at the different appliance brands and looks. I couldn't get close enough to inspect any, but you can't imagine how badly I wanted to!
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Post# 78731 , Reply# 6   8/16/2005 at 16:57 (6,798 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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It's too bad that all the formidable old dept stores chains have almost been obliterated from the face of the earth. I especially liked going into any big old downtown store but even some of those they have ruined with modernization. Dan in Seattle said the bon Marche there is now a Macy's, at least the buildings still intact. The old Eatons here was demolished to add onto the expanding downtown mall, they took apart the beautiful limestone facade and rebuilt a new store on the next block using parts of it, but it wasn't the same, new elevators, new escalators,yuk. We still have the old downtown Bay store and it's still somewhat original though the elevators were taken out and only replaced by one awful cheap no name Krone or something. Many of the escalators though not the real original wooden ones are still there, the 50's narrow ones. The last big store I remember having the original old Otis wooden slat steps was Eatons College Street store in Toronto and those were replaced by new in the early 60's. They did keep one set running by the entranceway after that, but the stores been redone into offices and condos now I think, wonder if that wooden escalator is still there? Hudsons in Detroit (not same as Hudson Bay in Cda) had a great old downtown store,, closed now too. The other great thing about those old stores was nearly all of them had these magnificent dining rooms on the top floor with proper table cloths etc. Unfortunately the one here at the Bay was turned from a wood panelled marvel into a 60's cafeteria.
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Post# 78740 , Reply# 7   8/16/2005 at 18:05 (6,798 days old) by Nurdlinger (Tucson AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 78780 , Reply# 9   8/16/2005 at 22:09 (6,798 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 78791 , Reply# 10   8/16/2005 at 22:35 (6,798 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 78805 , Reply# 11   8/16/2005 at 23:59 (6,798 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 78811 , Reply# 12   8/17/2005 at 02:10 (6,798 days old) by kenmore1978 ()   |   | |
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I notice that the dryer still has an ozone lamp at that late date |
Post# 78826 , Reply# 13   8/17/2005 at 07:06 (6,798 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 78838 , Reply# 14   8/17/2005 at 08:34 (6,798 days old) by pulsator-power (connecticut)   |   | |
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I used to go down the appliance aisles & open them all up when I was a kid! Actually, I still do Jerry |