20th-Century Retailing in Downtown Grand Rapids (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781531670030)

For decades, downtown Grand Rapids enjoyed a long run in the limelight as the epicenter of shopping in western Michigan. The vibrant Monroe Avenue corridor included three homegrown department stores, several chain department stores, five-and-dime stores, and scores of clothing and specialty retailers. It weathered mother nature, wars, the Great Depression, the advent of neighborhood shopping centers, and civil disturbances--but the one change it could not overcome was the regional shopping mall.

Author: Michael Hauser, Marianne Weldon
ISBN-10: 1531670032
ISBN-13: 9781531670030
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2014
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d