This is so well done and so interesting. I was there and walked around the outside of the bohemeth building on a college hockey band trip in 1994 but, of course, it was locked up tight at that time. It really is a shame this one wasn't repurposed. Interestingly (ironically?) enough, the original Dayton's store (later Marshall Fields & Macy's) is being given new life. I put the link in the next comment if you're interested. Great video!
Hi Dana, and thanks for your comment! I wish more of these old and such unique and elaborate buildings were repurposed but I guess it's cheaper to demolish and rebuild sadly. We've lost so many great and historic buildings throughout the year and continue to do so. That story about Dayton's store sounds interesting but I didn't see a link come up. Would you be able to resend it by chance? I'd love to check it out! Thanks again!
@@RetailRewind Yeah... I don't see it here now either. You may have a setting to reject website links in your comments... I'll try again in the next comment... but just in case it doesn't work again, Google "The Dayton's Project" and it'll be the first result.
You are probably right - I'll look at how to change that. I did find it and very interesting! 200 million dollars for the overall project the website stated and it does indeed look nice inside! Looks like it's either open or soon as it stated opening in Spring. I hope tenants come in and make it a successful renovation so other old buildings do more of the same.
It's been decades since the time when thousands of independent department stores dotted the American landscape. But in the latter half of the 20th Century, large corporate department stores, like Walmart, put thousands of small town department stores out of business! Both the working owners and employees were left jobless, and together with other large corporations, owned by private individuals who do no work at all, sent factories overseas to places where children and desperately poor adults work in the most squalid of conditions for pennies an hour, or used their stolen wealth to weaken unions in the US in order to pressure workers to accept huge pay cuts, leaving American workers no other way to survive other than to take the pitifully low wages and zero-to-no benefits, such as what the typical Walmart employee receives! Interestingly, the justifications for stealing wealth from workers goes directly back to when the owners of large lands excused their claim to own, not just the wealth workers created, but the workers themselves--overt slavery! They, too, bragged about how "generous" they were, "providing homes, clothing and food" to their "servants"! They further claimed to have delivered their slaves from pagan darkness and "provided them with honest work"! Sure, we can be glad that over slavery was outlawed in the US, but the owner class has, ever since then, done all they can to get as close as they can to enslaving the vast majority of Americans by claiming it's OK to own, if not the workers themselves, all the wealth their work creates, only to return a very small portion of it back to them, and they return even less every chance they get! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Taking-Workers-Illegal/dp/B08BD9CWLP
This is so well done and so interesting. I was there and walked around the outside of the bohemeth building on a college hockey band trip in 1994 but, of course, it was locked up tight at that time. It really is a shame this one wasn't repurposed. Interestingly (ironically?) enough, the original Dayton's store (later Marshall Fields & Macy's) is being given new life. I put the link in the next comment if you're interested. Great video!
Hi Dana, and thanks for your comment! I wish more of these old and such unique and elaborate buildings were repurposed but I guess it's cheaper to demolish and rebuild sadly. We've lost so many great and historic buildings throughout the year and continue to do so. That story about Dayton's store sounds interesting but I didn't see a link come up. Would you be able to resend it by chance? I'd love to check it out! Thanks again!
@@RetailRewind Yeah... I don't see it here now either. You may have a setting to reject website links in your comments... I'll try again in the next comment... but just in case it doesn't work again, Google "The Dayton's Project" and it'll be the first result.
You are probably right - I'll look at how to change that. I did find it and very interesting! 200 million dollars for the overall project the website stated and it does indeed look nice inside! Looks like it's either open or soon as it stated opening in Spring. I hope tenants come in and make it a successful renovation so other old buildings do more of the same.
It's been decades since the time when thousands of independent department stores dotted the American landscape. But in the latter half of the 20th Century, large corporate department stores, like Walmart, put thousands of small town department stores out of business!
Both the working owners and employees were left jobless, and together with other large corporations, owned by private individuals who do no work at all, sent factories overseas to places where children and desperately poor adults work in the most squalid of conditions for pennies an hour, or used their stolen wealth to weaken unions in the US in order to pressure workers to accept huge pay cuts, leaving American workers no other way to survive other than to take the pitifully low wages and zero-to-no benefits, such as what the typical Walmart employee receives!
Interestingly, the justifications for stealing wealth from workers goes directly back to when the owners of large lands excused their claim to own, not just the wealth workers created, but the workers themselves--overt slavery! They, too, bragged about how "generous" they were, "providing homes, clothing and food" to their "servants"! They further claimed to have delivered their slaves from pagan darkness and "provided them with honest work"!
Sure, we can be glad that over slavery was outlawed in the US, but the owner class has, ever since then, done all they can to get as close as they can to enslaving the vast majority of Americans by claiming it's OK to own, if not the workers themselves, all the wealth their work creates, only to return a very small portion of it back to them, and they return even less every chance they get!
Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Taking-Workers-Illegal/dp/B08BD9CWLP