Oh, wow. I remember buying fabric at Penney's, sears, "Monkey Wards. Funny thing is, I don't remember when they stopped. Just now realized, hey, they don't any more!
I live in a fairly small town. When I first got married, there were both a Penney's and a Sears in our town. They both moved to a mall halfway between our town and the next (about 1975?), then when a larger mall opened in the town 30 miles away (1990?), they both moved there. I believe both stopped carrying fabric when they moved to the 1st mall. Memories, memories