Saturday, December 17, 2016
I recently heard that the hometown department store, Dayton's, would be closing sometime this coming year. Actually Dayton's closed a number of years ago but all of it's stores are now owned by Macy's which is actually what will be closing. The downtown and Southdale locations were so distinctive that I still often slip and call them Dayton's. Noel and I decided to make one last holiday season pilgrimage to the downtown store. Growing up we saw a number of holiday shows in the store's 8th floor auditorium which is also were you could visit Santa.
We decided to go to the Oak Grille, Dayton's restaurant since about the 1940s, which Macy's continued to operate. We were told upon arrival that the wait would be about a half hour so we chose to check out some stuff. Neither of us had been in The Skyroom in years. The cafeteria style restaurant is popular with the downtown lunch crowd. The views are spectacular.
The Skyroom circa 1949.
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