Who remembers Eaton’s department stores? (sales, appliances, home)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Who remembers shopping at Eaton’s or their catalogs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton%27s

[ChevySpoons]

I think Eaton's was a large part of every Canadian's life. Certainly, Eaton's (and to a lesser degree, Simpson's) supplied our family with clothing for us kids, suits for Dad, nice outfits for Mom, appliances for our home, and TV sets, radios, luggage, hardware, pet supplies, and so on. The only thing that Eaton's did not carry was tobacco, which meant that if we went to Yorkdale, Dad had to lead us down the mall to Simpson's, so he could get a 2 oz. pouch of Sail or Amphora pipe tobacco.

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Who remembers shopping at Eaton’s or their catalogs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton%27s

Mouldy what do you remember about Eatons or Simpsons or Ogilvies?

[DawnMTL]

I do! It was the anchor store of many malls. I miss it; I liked that it was a "general purpose" store. Nowadays, Costco is the only real "general purpose" store.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

So it was Canada’s Sears?

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

So it was Canada’s Sears?

Much like either the Bay or Woodsworth. They used to be stand alone downtown stores.

[begratto]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

So it was Canada’s Sears?

More like Macy's or JC Penney's. Better, more upscale than Sears.

[BruSan]

Originally Posted by ChevySpoons

I think Eaton's was a large part of every Canadian's life. Certainly, Eaton's (and to a lesser degree, Simpson's) supplied our family with clothing for us kids, suits for Dad, nice outfits for Mom, appliances for our home, and TV sets, radios, luggage, hardware, pet supplies, and so on. The only thing that Eaton's did not carry was tobacco, which meant that if we went to Yorkdale, Dad had to lead us down the mall to Simpson's, so he could get a 2 oz. pouch of Sail or Amphora pipe tobacco.

Our family made a couple of trips there per year to get the regular annual sales deals on school clothing, winter coats etc..

My first .22 rifle, an Etonia made for Eaton's by Cooey, was bought from their catalogue to handle rats on the farm and later given to me as a Christmas present on my twelfth b'day.

I remember, after touring the store and using the big elevators to hit all the floors, walking the under-street tunnel to the Eaton's Annex to watch as mom would sort through the large tables of kids shoes for my next couple of pairs of winter galoshes and Sisman Scampers that were made right in our home town of Aurora.

On one trip back from Eaton's in the mid fifties we detoured to the new Bad Boy store and bought mom a brand new Moffat kitchen range with the element controls on the front of the stove that had different back-lit shades of red to indicate each of nine temperature settings for the electric elements. She was so tickled over that stove my dad could do no wrong for at least a month. Refrigerators, micro-waves, dishwashers all came and went over the years but that stove was lovingly maintained and remained her favourite kitchen appliance, performing solid duty right up until she went into a home in 1993.

Those were good days.

[markjames68]

I personally preferred the Simpsons-Sears Christmas catalog in the 70's. If I recall it didn't become just "Sears" until the early to mid-80's.

[BruSan]

I am old enough to remember having used portions of both the Eatons and Simpsons Sears catalogues in the privy out back of our farmhouse on old highway 48 in (404) Vandorf.