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.

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing those wonderful family memories

@NevaehsThriftyNiftyTreasures

10 ай бұрын

Same…. We lived in Scioto County but always went there for Christmas…. Wonderful memories

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!

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.

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your wonderful family memories.

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

@@johnmote1137 Thanks for sharing that memory

I worked for Lancome in the Lazarus stores, I loved the down town store and the magic of the store windows. I sure wish we could go back in time and stay there 🙂

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!

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.

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

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

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

6 ай бұрын

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.

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 ❤❤❤

@EricCProductions76

10 ай бұрын

that is awesome, thanks for sharing

@johndef5075

6 ай бұрын

Thats too cool.

Christmas time at the downtown store. ❤️

Living in Missouri we only had Famous-Barr. Which eventually would be sold along with its sister stores to Macy's via Federated Department Stores' acquisition of The May Company.

You did a great job on lazarus

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for your suggestion

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.

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!.

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

It is. Thanks for watching

@sunsetrecords2548

2 жыл бұрын

@@EricCProductions76 your welcome

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.

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.

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

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories

I worked at the northland store.

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.

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories

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

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@patriciajackson2554

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

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

Can you do a video on Spotslyvania Town Center?

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

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.

Can Lazarus be brought back from the dead?

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

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

that's awesome

@robinsonstegard538

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@EricCProductions76

2 жыл бұрын

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

@American-Motors-Corporation

2 жыл бұрын

@@EricCProductions76 welcome, thank you!

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

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your correction. Here is a my heartfelt apology for butchering Shillitos in that video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYaGtNqQnrOdYqQ.html

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

@EricCProductions76

Жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing your memories