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Remembering Marshall Field's: 12/13/09 - 12/20/09
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Marshall Field's delivery wagons. One of the most common memories of Marshall Field's must be its delivery trucks. Those gorgeous green trucks coming up the street with fabulous goodies inside. By the end, these were used for furniture and not a whole lot else. But for decades the store would delivery anything from a new refrigerator to a spool of thread. In those days, it was not unknown for retailers to whip horses and flog them, sometimes even to death. According to.
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 4/25/10 - 5/2/10
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Saturday, May 1, 2010. Catalogs from 1975 and 1973. Reasures uncovered from the 1975 Marshall Field's Christmas catalog:. Also, the magnificent furs. The furry white one is dyed blue fox from Norway with feather-cut fur, styled to be worn at three different lengths. The dark one is a mink coat by Pierre Cardin. Guaranteed never to be seen in fashion again: Coordinating his-n-hers denim leisure outfits:. Never again will cotton corduroy fancy painter paints be so fashionable:. The first page has dolls, in...
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 1/10/10 - 1/17/10
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Monday, January 11, 2010. Norman Rockwell immortalized the store’s clocks in a typically whimsical illustration for the cover of the wildly popular Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 3, 1945:. The clock depicted is the Randolph St. clock, as evidenced by the Oriental Theater sign partially visible in the background. Macy’s later donated it to the Chicago History Museum, sealing its status, in turn, as an icon of Chicago history. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'd love to hear from you? View my complete profile.
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Remembering Marshall Field's: A Walk Through Marshall Field's in 1946
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Friday, April 9, 2010. A Walk Through Marshall Field's in 1946. Thumbing through a copy of the store's 1946 guidebook (tellingly, a guidebook for both the store and the city - presumably as a useful service for tourists):. It occurred to me that scanning this booklet is almost like taking a walk through the store, so I thought I'd post a few. These aren't all the photos in the guidebook, but a scattered assortment for those who care to step back in time. You start on the main aisle:. The guidebook didn't...
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 2/7/10 - 2/14/10
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Friday, February 12, 2010. In search of your Marshall Field's photographs! Ever take your kids to see the Marshall Field's Christmas windows? Or eat in the Walnut Room or get a makeover at the cosmetics counter? I'm in search of personal photographs of Marshall Field's Department Store, especially the State St store, for an upcoming illustrated history of the fabled department store. The book, titled Remembering Marshall Field's, is slated for publication in April 2011. Photographs must be those that I c...
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 11/15/09 - 11/22/09
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Just came upon this priceless ad from, I believe, 1974:. Anyone remember getting ice cream at the Crystal Palace? It wasn't on the 7th floor with the other restaurants, but on 3. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm working on an illustrated history of Marshall Field's, slated for publication by Arcadia Publishing in 2011. Got stories or photos to share? I'd love to hear from you? Email me at info@rememberingmarshallfields.com And, yes, I do love Frango mints.
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 1/17/10 - 1/24/10
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Sunday, January 17, 2010. Marshall Field's and the Field Museum. Yes, their names are similar: Marshall Field, Field Museum. But beyond just the assumption that he gave a lot of many, how many modern Chicagoans actually know the link between Marshall Field and the museum that bears his name? The museum stayed in Jackson Park until 1921, when it moved to its present site on what is now known as the Museum Campus. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm working on an illustrated history of Marshall Field's, slated...
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 11/1/09 - 11/8/09
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Oooo boy my mother is going to be maaaaad. When I started researching Field's history, I figured, hey, I probably have a ton of photos of Field's. Definitely of the Walnut Room Christmas tree. Nope Two hours of digging through boxes of photos turned up exactly one out of focus photograph that doesn't include me:. My mother (who will hate me because she hates seeing photos of herself but I think she looks great) and my darling niece Annie. Check No visuals of the background?
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Remembering Marshall Field's: 1/3/10 - 1/10/10
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Thursday, January 7, 2010. The cathedral of all stores. There has been a lot written about how department stores often emulated church architecture. At least as early as 1922, the store's "new" buildings were referred to as the "Cathedral of all Stores.". But what does this really mean? Just that they were really big and impressive? Well, yes, that's part of it. Department stores certainly wanted to claim for themselves many of the characteristics that made churches so dominant in society. But whether we...
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Remembering Marshall Field's: Marshall Field's and the Field Museum
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Sunday, January 17, 2010. Marshall Field's and the Field Museum. Yes, their names are similar: Marshall Field, Field Museum. But beyond just the assumption that he gave a lot of many, how many modern Chicagoans actually know the link between Marshall Field and the museum that bears his name? The museum stayed in Jackson Park until 1921, when it moved to its present site on what is now known as the Museum Campus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm working on an illustrated history of Marshall Field's...
