 Now THAT'S a Macy's! (New York-style, Dallas Galleria)
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March 03, 2008
RATING: G, for families. No need to flag. A complete video, inside and out, of the REAL, New York-style Macy's store at the Galleria in Dallas, Texas. Since gluse was fortunate enough to make videos at this excellent Macy's location, I thought I'd make a video of the whole store! (Yes, I'm going to show you the escalators.) Macy's, of course, is a famous department store from New York City. Many people know Macy's from the Thanksgiving Parade and the film "Miracle on 34th Street". Although Macy's had stores outside the New York area in the past, preferably in the Bay Area and Atlanta, Macy's first store outside their usual areas opened in 1983 in Aventura, FL. Soon thereafter, a couple stores opened in the Houston suburbs in 1984-85 (there's a video of a Dillard's at Deerbrook Mall that used to be an old Macy's), and this store, at the Galleria in Dallas, opened on October 8, 1985. Even though this location operated as a Macy's over the past 22 years, this store has gone through regional changes: - 1985-1988: Operated under Macy's New York, THE main division of Macy's. - 1988-1992: Operated under an early version of Macy's South, based in Atlanta, GA. - 1992-2006: Operated as Macy's West, based out of San Francisco, CA. - 2006-2008: Operated as the new version of Macy's South, based in Atlanta, GA. - 2008-present: Operated as a part of Macy's Central, also based out of Atlanta, GA. This store opened on October 8, 1985, particularly to compete with other top-dollar stores such as Neiman-Marcus. This store, as expected, was designed to be a small-scale version of the original New York Herald Square location and specializes heavily on high fashions and fancy housewares. A restaurant, food department, customer service, gift wrap, and store offices are all to be found in this store. The exterior was Macy's typical design in the Mid 80s to Early 90s. (In 1993, Sonny Bryan's Barbeque, a Dallas-based fast food chain, became the restaurant on the third floor [ala Nordstrom's restaurants in their stores]. I feel that's good, customizing a New York-like store to fit in here in Dallas.) In this video, I show you the basement and sub-basement of this store, which is basically parking. The escalators in this part of the garage are SITO (Otis in the weird blocky font of the 60s-80s) single-file escalators which are customized for Macy's. I then show level 1, which consists of menswear, plus women's shoes, accessories, handbags, sunglasses, jewelry, fragrances, and cosmetics. Outside in the mall area is a sushi restaurant operated by the store itself. I like the gold-plating in the mall area. Level 2 consists entirely of women's wear. (Apologies for the lack of detail in women's departments; I don't want to be embarrassed wandering around in the wrong departments!) Finally, Level 3 has "The Cellar," which consists of gourmet foods, a restaurant (in this case, Sonny Bryan's), and appliances/cookware; plus miscellaneous gifts, home bedding and towels, china and crystal, baggage (sorry for a grammatical error spoken during that part), and the still largely-untouched children's section. There's also a customer service/gift wrap office, and the actual employee offices for the store; I love these offices, because they look like an old bank! To top it all off, even though gluse made a video of it already, I ride the Otis parking garage elevator from the sub-basement to the roof in 20 seconds! (At the end, I say, "Made it!" really fast!) I forgot to mention, the escalators in the store are like the garage escalators, only regular-sized. These are SITOs (Otis in the weird font). I made this video not only because this is the very first Macy's I've ever been into, but this is the ONLY Macy's worth shopping at here in the Metroplex! I like how I feel like I'm in New York City shopping at this location, and old Foley's stores can't even come close!!!!! This video is also to give those in markets whose first Macy's stores are old neighborhood stores or used to live near or have a "Real Macy's" an in-depth look at what a Macy's really looks like! The music played in this video is by Duran Duran. Since I love 80s things (especially music!) and that this store comes from the 80s, both would be an excellent mix! The video (including its soundtrack) is entirely for educational, historical, and informational purposes only. All copyrights respected. Author: sethn172 Keywords: Otis SITO Escalator Elevator 1985 1980s REAL Macy's Dallas Galleria Mall Texas New York City Herald Square Duran duran Added: March 2, 2008
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