Robert Hall Clothes - Life in America
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With my first pay check back in 1981 I bought my mom a coat at Robert Halls in South Philly location. My mom was so proud of me for buying her a coat with my very own first pay check. Miss you mom very much. Wish those days were back!!! RIP mom ❤️❤️
The South Philly Located at 19th and Oregon Avenue.
@@stevencanal4178 yup sure was I lived in South Philly growing up best years of my life!!
🙏😊
Nice memories..... thanks for sharing.
But they went bankrupt in 1977. Are you sure of the date?
I used to buy my clothes at Robert Hall. Thank you for bringing back so many memories to those of us old enough to remember.
This brings back a lot of warm memories of going with my parents to buy school clothes in the fall. Robert Hall’s prices were so reasonable that my folks could get my siblings and I our whole fall wardrobe at one time. After our shopping, my Dad would take our family to Dog and Suds for hot dogs and root beer. Thanks for reopening Robert Hall one more time.
OMG 🥰. I grew up wearing Robert Hall clothes. They had a huge selection.
Yes...every Spring, Mom and I would get a new " Spring coat" (from " The Hall") as Dad and my brother garnered their own, new dress jackets and pants...
I remember when I was 7 or 8 years old getting my Easter dress there. It was lavender and white it had one of those little short jacket that went over it. I was so proud of that dress. I had a white hat with daisies on it and a brand new pair of patent leather shoes with frilly socks. I really thought I was something in that outfit. I have a picture of it. Gosh those were the good old days. No worries or health problems.
Sweet memories
Now...you're a old fart.
@@dwightpowell6673 so what is wrong with being a old fart?
Same here with the frilly socks and patent leather " Mary Janes". However, the scratchy, circular slips that we would have to wear under the cute little dresses used to be a " killer" back in those early-mid 60's.
My parents used to take me and my brothers to buy our Easter Sunday suits at Robert Hall. Good old days. This takes me back home.
I got a tri-colored blue leisure suit from there in the 70's... I was so proud!
Bought many Ship ‘N Shore blouses there in the sixties. There was a Robert Hall at the end of my street.
Another iconic business from my childhood and early teen years in the 60s and 70s. Who can forget as a young child hiding from your siblings in the clothes racks.
As a kid I hated being dragged to this store...It was a nightmare....My wife said she was traumatized as a kid also. I'm pushing 66 and my wife and I agree that if we ever have to visit a shrink that this experience was our worst kid experience of all time next to getting french kissed from garlic and sardine breath grandma.
I too have awful memories of being dragged to Robert Hall...we hated it. It had to be the most boring store, that ever existed 🤪
@@rockmassa4151In my opinion, that distinction would have gone to two stores; G.E.X. in Pennsauken (we just called it "Gecks"...it was a members only store where veterans and their families could purchase anything at a discount) and Garwoods, just off the old Ellisburg Circle. Nichols in Maple Shade came in a close third, but got points because Sally Starr made an appearance there in her purple cowgirl outfit and we even got to meet her handsome, late husband in the parking lot after her appearance. Ah, the memories of a 60's kid...
I like to read the comments to all these videos about others experiences with the stores, it adds greater depth and a bit more sadness. Thank you for sharing your memories.. I also look at the people shopping in the pics and wonder what they were thinking in that moment, where did they go and what did they do next? How did their lives play out? Were they happy? Are they still alive? I'd like to talk to every single one....even lady walking in the parking lot.
I wonder the same things
Enjoyed this video-documentary. When I was growing up (1950's and 1960's), Robert Hall Stores were ubiquitous, seemingly everywhere. I went to school wearing clothes --- really nice clothes --- purchased at Robert Hall.
Then (years later) I noticed one day that Robert Hall [America's Largest Family Clothing Chain] no longer existed. Their demise somehow escaped me; and I wondered for years what became of the company. Now I know. RIP.
Wow! another great video that brings back precious memories! Grew up in the rubber capital of the world in the Buckeye state in the 60's. Could always tell summer was coming to an end because....once dad got home from work, off we'd go to the Sears and Roebucks "Husky dept" to start the back to school clothes shopping. Then straight to the Robert Hall store to get what ever we couldn't get at Sears. Tom McCann's was right next to Robert Hall's and I would get a new pair of shoes for class and my favorite.....a new pair of P.F. Fliers for gym class!! Then because it was the end of summer we always stopped at the A&W Rootbeer stand on the way home for supper and a rootbeer float! Thanks for the memories!!
@Michael Klouser I agree I know that song well😊
Would this by chance have been at Chapel Hill?
Half my clothes in the 50-70’s came from there. My mother knew our store like the back of your hand.
Me too. My Mother bought my and my Fathers suits at Robert Hall's until we moved to California in 1964.
Everyone in our family got clothes there.
$22 for a suit.
Now you pay hundreds.
Why ?
My parents bought my very first suit for my Catholic grade school First Communion in 1966 when I was 8 years old at a Robert Hall in Chicago when we lived there. Lots of Robert Hall little boy suits that year at Our Lady of the Snows. :) TY for a nice memory.
I still have a trench coat in one of my closets that I purchased at the Robert Hall in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan back in 1973.
I remember that store. It was at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Wellesley Dr. I never knew it was a nationwide chain.
Thats so neat!
You can't wear it...you're a hoarder
@@dwightpowell6673 Because I have one old item makes me a hoarder? Get some fresh air pal!
Willing to be that it is a tan/light brown, belted and double breasted.
"We're doing our Christmas shopping at Robert Hall this year. We're saving on clothes for Christmas at Robert Hall this year. Low overhead means low prices on clothes for one and all; It's a larger selection, a better selection, where America goes to shop for clothes, it's Robert Hall this year!". This was a radio jingle I heard over & over when I was a teenager in suburban Chicago in the late 50s.
My mother used to bring us there For back to school clothes , easter clothes and Christmas clothes! She used to bring my brother to the section that was for huskies, he was a little overweight👍 🤔😁
YES! Spring coats!
YES!! Such beautiful Memories! We were right there with you! Life was so beautiful then. Thank you for sharing such sweet Nostalgia! I miss those Days so deeply, that, if I could step into a Time Machine, I would go right back THERE....
.....and NEVER look back HERE.
Seeleygirl We used to call them Easter coats
@@dwightpowell6673 you’re right I was trying to be PC🤔😁And he married a woman that her mother used to shop in the female version which were chubby 😂
@@kevinbarletta7749 if they had children....bad genes from both parents....obese kids.
In the fifties when you heard the Robert whole song start with when children sing it's back to Robert Hall again just hearing that song put a knot in my stomach😥🙂
A song used for this store would come on the radio the end of summer,"school bells ring and children sing its back to Robert Hall's agaln" I knew my summer vacation was over,I dreaded hearing it.Where did the summer go.
I remember this one over 50 years later---- "mother knows,for better clothes,its back to Robert Hall again"
You beat me to it.
That commercial was done by Les Paul and Mary Ford.
Ha my mom would be so happy at the end of summer vacation she would sing that song every year. I always thought Robert Halls was a school.
@@kenfuscious I would sing the jingle to my children in late August, can't understand why they would get mad.
Where are my dad took me to buy my clothes in the 60s. It was kind of a father and son thing.
My best friend's father was the manager of the Robert Hall in our town.
was it port huron mi
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Brilliant nostalgic videos 👍🏼 keep them coming... you get lots of comments on each video (everyone loves them) and great photos also
I remember my Mom and Dad taking me and my brother to Robert Hall every year to get Easter cloths!! Good times!!👍
What a great clothes store!!! I use to shop there in Queens, N.Y. and bought a camel hair overcoat for 20.00 !! Damm shame that stores like this ,gimbels,a&s..are no longer...
Still like a nice camelhair jacket. Remember my dad had a cashmere overcoat. Wallach's I think.
Please, I knew the world ended the day Filene’s Basement stopped having the Running of the Brides.☹️😂 Another great NY tradition that’ll never come again
Macy's is still hanging on. Probably the last of the great department store retailers.
I remember Robert Hall Clothes from back in the day. The Robert Hall stores,that I remember are in inner city of Detroit and one in the suburbs.
The 4 Robert Hall buildings are still left. The remaining stores are:
#1,East 7 mile and Gratiot
#2,Van Dyke and Harper
#3,Woodward and McNichols in Highland Park
#4 ,Woodward and 10 Mile Road in Royal Oak
These 4 Robert Hall stores still stand with other tenants in the buildings.
e had one in port hron mi, 60 miles north of detroit
We had one here in Canton Ohio and when I was a kid growing up my folks bought my clothes here for suits and school attire. They were a great store nothing fancy but great prices!
"The Plain Pipe Rack" survived here in Houston until 1976.
When the tailor told me there was no charge for alteration(s) I bought three suits at once.
KMART & WALMART led the race to the bottom>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Where was the Robert Hall? I don't recall that store at all.
@@michaelinhouston9086 Downtown on San Jacento I think small space.
@@michaelinhouston9086 it’s their undercutting prices with cheap communist goods
From a time when men and women dressed conservatively and cared about how they looked in public. I miss those days and loathe what this Nation has become.
Also a time when they knew what gender they were! Like you I loathe this time and what this Country has become!
@@jllrue Me too!
People then dressed like everyone else. People today dress like everyone else. This nation is better for more people than it has ever been.
@@mikephalen3162 LOL! Great joke! I'm rolling on the floor in hilarious laughter!
I’m with you along with bad manners and unruly behavior.
I can still remember the Robert Hall jingle after all these years. I remember a red coat my parents bought me when I was about 10. .....Robert Hall this season will give you a reason, high quality low overhead....
Wow I remember my parents shopping here, I had forgotten all about this store.😯😀 Thanks for some good remembers👍🏻♥️😀
My brother worked at a Robert Hall in Amarillo, Texas in the early 70's.
Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone, everything that I got, is just what I have on. Great song about Amarillo. And I’ from Chicago.👍
I can remember their back school clothing song. Every August in the 1950's & 60'. My parents took me to Robert Hall for the back to school clothing.😊😊
Color me weird,I liked Robert Hall. It wasn't fancy but it wasn't a warehouse either.
Got my last pair of penny loafers there around 1973. Not a warehouse, but simple wooden building on a rural road. Clothes hanging on iron pipe. Shoe boxes set on the floor along the perimeter underneath the clothes rack. I sat on the floor to try on the shoes. Their clothes were basic, but good looking and comfortable. A time gone by.
My mom, sister, and I bought our clothing there when we were in Junior High. I loved this store. They were trendy, and very affordable. We lived in Kalamazoo MI. Our Robert Hall Store was located on South Westnedge St. and right next to this store was another favorite store of ours where we bought all of our school shoes at called Kinney Shoes. Having the two stores next to each other made it very convenient for us. We were able to buy shoes to go with out new outfits. I miss having both of these stores very much. I wish they would bring them both back to life....
Thanks for remembering olden days.
I remember Robert Hall store in Hagerstown Maryland Thank you for sharing this brings back lots of memories Keep bringing these videos
I graduated high school in 1974 sporting a band-new Robert Hall suit and a nice pair of Kinney shoes. I looked awesome.
It seems really nice clothes. But, my life in Texas it doesn’t have Robert Hall clothes until, we moved to Virginia in 1976, we had Robert Hall Village department store as shown and, yeah, I remembered in 1977 bankruptcy. Really sad.
I remember a Robert Hall store in Manassas, Virginia.
@@rachelc.5463 I don’t remembered about Robert Hall Clothes in southeastern Virginia. Only Robert Hall Village in Portsmouth that went bankrupt same time in spring 1977. I missed that nice store that sell more than clothes.
We had one in Houston Texas. Remember the jingles.
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Omg Robert Hall I’m from trenton New Jersey my mother n grandma use to shop for my brother n I , they had high end clothing I remember my mother got me my first London fog yellow trench coat I was in the third grade,💕🥰💯We need more stores like that...
All the good stores disappeared one by one miss so many of them nothing is the same anymore.
Cheap and thin material, doesn't last these days.
My mom worked at Robert halls in Pontiac, in the late 60s
Love the music, keep it in all videos
I remember this so well.
It was a BIG deal going shopping there with my Dad...Great memories.
Looks like this clothing store chain never made it west of the Rockies? I've never hear of Robert Hall. FUN FACT...That's actor Richard Roundtree at 4:08 who played the lead character in the early 70s move "Shaft."
We had them in New York. I had a couple of Robert Hall suits when I was a kid.
Grew up in LA and we had them.
We had Robert Hall stores in Dallas, TX. I remember the print ads in The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald plus the catchy commercials on TV and radio. RH was very popular here.
Come to think of it, the beautiful woman has Pam Grier's strong chin and distinctive nose. Maybe her?
@@akrenwinkle No. That is definitely not Pam Grier. I don't think Pam ever worked as a model but I did know that Richard Roundtree did. In fact, I believe that's how he was discovered by Hollywood.
My Mother bought my 1976 High School graduation suit from them, such great memories and great times!
I loved Robert hall.
Loved Robert Hall - very plain inside but really cute, fashionable styles - well-made and affordable.
That's probably why I never liked them.
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"Low over head high quality" was their slogan. they had quality clothes & was a favorite place to shop.
Those racks look easier to shop than the disjointed displays malls had...u see a shirt on a mannequin but the rest of them are all hidden somewhere on the floor...at least here, the shirt is with its friends and u don’t gotta go on a scavenger hunt to find it😂 It kinda reminds me of an upscale version of Burlington Coat Factory
@@deniseherud "tHOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND WE THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER END!"
Back in the early 50s Mom took me to Robert Hall's, and bought me a nice new topcoat. It wouldn't fit now, but I wish I still had it, just for the memories.
Memories! I shopped there in the 70’s🤗
My parents took me and my brothers to that store for back to school clothes shopping and buying our Christmas and easter outfits there.
I remember as a child my mother would drag me there to buy my school clothing. Our store was located on Sycamore Highway.
" Robert Hall this season will show you the reason, Low overhead Low overhead " Remember the store in Wyandotte , MI. Building is still there.
Nothing says Easter (in the 60s) like a brand new Robert Hall suit to be worn on Easter Sunday for Easter Sunday church service. I miss those days.
School bells ring and children sing, it's back to Robert Hall again. I cannot forget these jingles.
My mother shopped at the Robert Hall's in New Jersey in the early 1960's. I totally forgot about this store even though my childhood memory about the store is a mere blur.
Which one?
@@samanthab1923 Stratford N.J. on Route 30. It closed probably early to mid 1960's my guess.
I feel like the one near me growing up closed early 70's trying to remember what went in the building afterward.
In the late 60’s, after babysitting for $.50 hr every weekend, I would pay on a lay a way there with my earnings.
I don’t believe any president has control. I believe it’s the fed
I'm in my 20's and had to look up what layaway was. I assume this was before credit cards?
A layaway is having a store hold an item until paid in full. After selecting an item, you would put money down and pay on it until paid for. You would get so much time to do it!!!!
My first job 1973-77. Robert Hall Village, Crystal Lake, IL.
Wow, I remember. We used to say Robert throws them out, we “Hall” them away! Dumb, but we were 17.
I remember that!
Robert Halls, a great Childhood memory of Shopping with my Dad and Mom...We loved Robert Hall.
Robert Hall this season will show you the reason high quality... economy.
😢❤️. Thank you.
We would go Robt. Hall with my mother to get everyone's school clothes. We had to walk there and it was near our house because my mother did not drive. Kinney's was right next door. Always a fun trip. Loved the shoes and the clothes.
Recollection Road Robert Hall Loved them Bought lots of good Clothes there! Mother Knows for Better Clothes Its Back to Robert Hall Again. Shop at Robert Hall.
I remember my parents taking me there for my Easter outfits.
Us kids of the 50s remember it well !
Oh the powder blue polyester suit I bought in 1970 for my brother's wedding.
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Dont forget the ruffled shirt n platform shoes
Every Easter .....Robert Hall.
I am wearing a Bob Hall shirt RIGHT NOW!
Wow, does this take me back. When I was a young man, my parents used to shop for my pants and suits (for formal occasions) there. I also remember their radio jingle well.
I remember the Robert Hall store ( and it's MASSIVE sign) in Niagara Falls, NY. It closed in the mid-seventies when it was the site of a spectacular three-alarm fire that burned it clear to the ground.
I guess that is a way to get a store to close. 😏
Another "wow" and affirmation for the past Robert Hall: they showed as with people of color way before others did
Richard Roundtree a/k/a Shaft, John Shaft
@@williammoseley17 Shutch yo' mouth!
EJ Korvettes and Service Merchandise are two more that I can think of that were essentially national chains.
We were poor when my husband and I married in 1963.....he bought his suit for our wedding at Robert Hall....I think it was $20.00 but it was a nice looking suit and got the job done...
That MUSIC !
I’m digging that BIG TIME !
... I can still recall their advertising song, "When the values go up, up, up; and the prices go down, down, down; Robert Hall this season, will show you the reason: high quality, economy."
"Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor"
I've never heard of this place Thank You for sharing 😊
would always get my suits from them as a kid.... remember the guy measuring and altering for free...yes... they actually had salespeople that waited on you ...
Now we have salespeople who are surly and demand that you wear a mask. 🤮👎
" ♫ ♩ When the values go up, up, up - and the prices go down, down down ♪
♪ Robert Hall this season, will show you the reason - high quality, variety ♩♬ "
That’s great. You added a couple of words that I couldn’t remember.👍
I was with Robert Hall in Anderson, SC when they closed in 1977.
Love these! I would love to see you do a story on Roses Dept Stores!
We have a Roses here in Montgomery AL
If my parents thought my brother and I needed a suit for a special occasion, like Easter, etc, it was Robert Hall, located next door to Kinney Shoes...(of course, lol)
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful series.
went shopping there with my mom for school clothes late 60's on riverview dr, one block east of north Broadway in St, louis Mo.
I love all recollection road videos. Its a brief snippet of my past. I would love to go back to this simpler time where men were men...families consisted of a mother and father and you knew your neighbor. I shopped these stores many times growing up. Wish they were still around.
There was a RH in my hood in the 70s, next door was a Kinney shoe store.
I remember my dad shopping there often. There was a store in West Nyack NY, Rockland county. Right on Rt 303 and next to the Rt 59 overpass. Very plain store. Today it’s a tire warehouse.
There was a Robert Hall store near my old neighborhood. I remember my father taking me there for my first Easter suit that finally had long pants !😄
I brought the baddest pair of pants here. Hip huggers pin stripe slim bell bottoms lace tie in front and back no buttons or zippers. Sharp!
Memories.
I remember shopping there with my mom and dad when I was just a kid.
How old are you now, Sir?
@@imroz19 60 in June
@@JP-yw4wx May Almighty bless you with the long life; full of health, wealth, true joy and happiness.
Thank you so much for your videos about the past. I look at this every single day with great memories thank you again
The Robert Hall building in my town was turned into a Polish bakery back in 1978 and it's still in business today with the same owners.
Was it the Robert Hall store that was in Sunnyside, Queens, over the bridge from Greenpoint, Brooklyn?
I got my raincoat in 1st grade (1960) from RH (Silver Hill Rd, Suitland, MD). Probably got my first suit (and clip-on tie) from RH as well. If I recall correctly, most Robert Hall's in the DC area were located right next to a Kinney's shoe store.
My mother did not drive but we were lucky to have shopping within walking distance. We had a Robert Hall and Kinney Shoes right on Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove, IL. They were right next door to each other. A double bonus. All of us kids got our school shoes and clothes from these two stores. I got this fake fur coat and it was the coolest thing ever. I loved that coat. My mother would buy my father's work clothes at Robt. Hall. Two great stores -- Robert Hall and KInney Shoes. I always got these velvet slip on shoes from Kinney. Loved those too.
"When the values go up, up, up; and the prices go down, down, down - Robert Hall this season will show you the reason - low overhead, low overhead." My first job after graduating from college had me spending a lot of time in the steel mills, which was hard on the suits I had to wear on the job in 1970. I recall buying two suit at $29.95 each - what a deal! Thank you so much for the video.
Remember....fond memories...buying school clothes there....Allentown, Pa.
You’re right about not being able to forget the TV jingle. “ When the value goes up, up, up, and the prices go down, down, down, Robert Hall will ........low overhead, low overhead.” Forgot a couple of words. Fond memories of the store.