S.S. Kresge

Before discount stores popped up all across America, there were the variety stores. For decades, Middle America shopped at these stores for their basic needs – housewares and kitchen items, linens, basic clothing, shoes, school supplies, toys and so on. Many variety stores had snack bars or luncheonettes.

S.S. Kresge Company, based in Detroit and officially founded in 1911 by Sebastian Spering Kresge, was the number three variety chain in the US at the dawn of the sixties, behind F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant. At the end of 1960, Kresge had 759 variety stores.

Pictured here was the Rosedale Park S.S. Kresge were I worked after school in the toy department under the supervision of Mrs. Bauer for a $1.50 an hour, lol!

Now a Dollar Deals it sits in the decayed plaza where as children we use to roam.