Did you buy the latest fashions at Burdines? The hot new record album at Spec’s? Some notions at Woolworth? A toaster at Zayre? A calculator at Circuit City?
So many long-lost stores in South Florida.
Let’s take a look at some of them through the photos in the Miami Herald archives:
WOOLWORTH
Woolworth on Lincoln Road in South Beach.
ZAYRE
A Zayre store and parking lot.
AMES
An Ames department store in 1990 in a former Zayre. Now both are gone.
CIRCUIT CITY
Circuit City in Aventura in 1989. It is now a Nordstrom Rack.
KRESS
The Kress store on Flagler Street in Miami at the time it was going out of business in 1980.
SERVICE MERCHANDISE
Service Merchandise in Hialeah.
LEVITZ
A Levitz store.
JORDAN MARSH
Jordan Marsh in Fort Lauderdale.
BURDINES
Burdines in downtown Miami.
BLOCKBUSTER
A Blockbuster Video store at Alton Road and 15th Street in 1995.
SPEC’S
Spec’s in the 1950s.
SEARS
Sears in downtown Miami in 1941, site of today’s Arsht performing arts theater.
MERVYN’S
In 1997, customers at Mervyn’s department store on U.S. 1 in Coconut Grove.
JACKSON’S
Jackson’s, a forerunner of J, Byrons, on Northwest Seventh Avenue in Miami.
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