The discussion of fabric in department stores really brings me back, and fabric stores being downtown. Amluxen's had the best collection of wool, right on the mall, down from YQR. And department stores also had books, and chocolate, and records, and restaurants to stop and get coffee and pie or coke and fries after a long day's shopping. The flip side--you had to dress up to go to Dayton's or Marshall Fields, unless you didn't want to go with my mother.