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Originally Posted by spictacular mcluvin
Me and my older brother used to LOVE going to The Bay on Hamilton & 12th. It was one of the trendiest stores for boys & mens clothes in the late 80s/early 90s. After going to The Bay we would walk down to The Boys Shack and Pant Shack and then head to The Galleria which also had a couple of good fashionable stores before going to the Cornwall Centre last.
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Yeah, it was a great store. Every department was great. I bought a lot of clothes and shoes, even a lot of furniture from there. They had a really good (and popular) restaurant on the lower level, and they also had the Malt Shop under the escalators in the basement (great malts and hot dogs) plus a great music department back when people actually bought records. Plus, they built their own parkade attached to the store. I loved the heated ramp going in - you could see the steam rising on a cold day when the ice & snow were melting, and the spiral ramp to exit. Nothing like the long waits to exit the parkade at Christmas because they were so busy.
Too bad Hudson's Bay thought they should purchase other retailers, and start new stores (hello Home Outfitters? Where are you now?) before re-investing in their run down stores. I worked for a large company that followed a similar path (it was not a retailer) setting up an American arm that dragged them down, eventually ending up in bankruptcy and putting thousands of people out of work. When will large corporations learn to look after what had made them rich and famous in the first place?