The Story of Hutzler's

[@maggiemcmac8273]

I am old enough to remember what a treat it was to go down to Howard Street at Christmas time to see all the decorated windows of the various department stores. Also fondly remember Hutzler's in Towson and Westview. GREAT video!!!

[@roberthyland1582]

I worked at Hutzlers from 1968 till it closed for good. I had several positions last one was Receiving Supervisor at the Service Building on West Lombard Street So many memories and people I worked with

[@trizzia8432]

Excellent video...I grew up in Baltimore and at one time I worked at all the Hutzler's locations that had the little savings and loans inside them as a floating teller...I think it was called Loyola Savings and Loans. That downtown store at Christmas was absolutely STUNNING in its hey day and my best friend was a buyer for Hutzler's. The memories this brings back from a forgotten time in my life are priceless. thank you

[@adameng8008]

Nice first retail story to launch this channel. I looking forward to see more videos about other retail stores.

[@RickinBaltimore]

Being born, raised, and living in Baltimore my whole life, Hutzler's was part of my childhood. My family and I went to the store on Howard Street all the time as a kid. Also Baltimore had Hochsheld Kohn, Hecht's and Epstein's as major department stores as well.

[@stargirl33343]

Thank you for making this one. I was born after all of the great Baltimore department stores closed, and have always been fascinated to learn what happened to them all and where I could find them today.

[@camscics]

You did a GREAT job on this. As long as it was, I couldn't stop to navigate away to multitask! I was totally engrossed. Thank you for creating something special. I had no idea this regional luxury department store existed. I wish I could have seen The Palace in person.

[@Mlbguy]

I was a Buyer for the young men's Varsity Shop in the early 1970s. Things were slipping away, but I loved every minute.

[@bernadinebeatty7923]

Oh how I so remember this wonderful department store. I purchase a beautiful Nativity scene when I worked downtown. To this day I still have it and the small light still work and I so love it as much as I did the day I purchased it. I will always remember Hutzler’s store on Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland. What a fabulous childhood memory and even as a young women shipping in downtown Baltimore.

[@hot88s23]

I worked on Howard Street in 1967. Sad to see the old Hutzlers building today.

[@amaliebrown3326]

I enjoyed watching this History of one of my favorite stores. I remember shopping at the original downtown Hutzlers in the 1960’s. I will always remember it as a beautiful, magical Department Store.

[@levilam522]

Nice job, downtown was a great place to be at one time... enjoyed growing up there.. long gone now..

[@thurstonpowell8687]

There was never a more legendary department store than Montgomery Wards in Carroll Park. I was a super hyper kid and my mother kept me on a leash and harness system because if she didn't I would hide from her and get lost. They used to have bell-hops that controlled the elevators and there were many in one store to move the crowds. It was Hutzler's counter where I experienced Chow Mein for the first time.

[@gobbletegook]

Great video. I went to one of there suburban stores in the late 1980's in Baltimore. It reminded me of a cross between GIMBELS and MARSHALL FIELDS. The store was beautiful...well stocked, and clean as a whistle! I am glad to see that MAY or FEDERATED and/or MACY'S never got their grubby paws on this store, like they did in so many other retail markets...only to liquidate them and turn them into now watered down MACY'S store.

[@renewco]

Loved this video, thanks! My mother worked at Hutzler’s Towson for over 20 years; I loved that store!!!!!

[@Feisty_Elfgirl_5258]

The original building is now a state government building. I once had a job interview in there. The inside no longer has any of the original charm and the outside only has some of the original art deco decor but even still it must have been incredible back in the day

[@jonhill9496]

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[@nanniel5633]

Thanks for your great post! I recall that at the Harford Mall the Hochschilds and Hutzlers stores were not where the Macy's is now. They were located in the middle of the mall on the Baltimore Pike side. This area has been remodeled twice over the years: first as a food court and then as the present configuration of shops and restaurants facing Baltimore Pike.

[@themagus5906]

9:40 Remember Read's Drug Stores anybody? Also, a barber shop, bar, electronics repair shop, grocery store, etc. on every block if you lived in a row-home neighborhood?

[@leegilbert5804]

I remember ridIng in a streetcar with my Grandmother to Howard Street to go shopping. Sometimes going down there to just go window shopping. She would shop and buy things but wouldn't take them home. At that time, the early sixties, the stores would wrap your purchases and deliver them to your house.

[@roberthyland1582]

Thank you bring back so many memories

[@sjgrall]

I worked at the Cranberry Mall Sears briefly in the mid 2000's. I had no idea it was originally intended for Hutzler's!

[@billybarnett2846]

Are you just reading something you found online? I remember big crowds downtown before they built the subway. Shoppers started going out to the suburbs in the 90s. Hetchs and Hutzler were gone then.

[@christopherkowalewski]

When I was younger, we'd go to Hutzler's especially for Christmas shopping and have lunch - I'd always have a club sandwich 😂 Always a great day!

[@ahotdj07]

@16:43 Hecht's - WOW - I haven't heard that name in a long time. I remember shopping there when I lived in Frederick, MD a long time ago. I wonder if Hecht's is still around.

[@twistoffate4791]

This channel also has a video about Hechts that's worth catching.

[@RickinBaltimore]

Hecht's was bought by the May Company and their stores were converted to Macy's.

[@twistoffate4791]

@@RickinBaltimore Yes, exactly. When we lived in Virginia, Hecht's was one of our major shopping destinations. Once we moved to Missouri, we stopped at Macy's, so I saw it from both sides. And then one day, our Macy's closed.

[@jimsager3297]

Hecht's was acquired by Macy's.

[@I-Libertine]

Again, bravo. Well done. You've nailed this.

[@stevecallachor]

Interesting story, well told. Hutzlrrs experience is merely to harbinger of what awaits most other big stores………..people ain’t got no money any more. The “buy now” consumerism of the last 100 years has finally caught up with us. The underlying causes have yet to be teased out and recognised. It will take strong will by government to achieve this, but we can only hope. Where the blame ultimately sits remains yet to be assigned. But, to be sure, it will be someone else’s fault. Stavros

[@thurstonpowell8687]

In the 30's children had to work often transported to farms north of Baltimore to pick crops to help families make ends meet

[@meganmangold1074]

When i was a baby back in 1978 and throughout. My Oma would take me to Hutzlers and I was told I was the best behaved baby. Ha the only time. Of course I do not remember but it is great to see.

[@jimmyday9536]

Back in those days, people actually put on clean clothes, combed their hair, and brushed their teeth, and spent an afternoon or evening in these retail places. As much a social event as anything; and here we are today, we all stay home, shop online, and deprive ourselves of meaningful social interaction.

[@danielcole156]

Love your videos keep them up

[@joeseeking3572]

Growing up in the Baltimore suburbs, Hutlzer's was a cut above. We went (rarely) Downtown - because, you know.... but generally to the Towson store, and then White Marsh. Usually Mom when she needed the 'good dress' or winter coat. There might still be one of those distinctive boxes sitting in sitting in someone's closet back home somewhere. But Hutlzer's was never for us kids, back to school clothes were strictly Sears, lol. Hutzler's would have been better off if they'd concentrated on better zip codes and left the downscale stuff to Hecht's and Macy's. they'd probably still have had to bow to the inevitable (chains) but might have survived longer.

[@levilam522]

Would like to see the history of Montgomery Ward.....

[@mikeinbmore]

Good job. I would disagree with Howard Street being abandoned (paraphrasing). But it's definitely not the same

[@thurstonpowell8687]

Just after LBJ invented the civil rights act (1964) I saw my first purse snatching inside Hutzler's as I came down the escalator.

[@deanberg4033]

Great story

[@annhall4125]

I work first at the warehouse, then went to work in the domestic department as an assistant department, left after 20 years.

[@kimkrebs451]

Hutzlers was the best!!

[@lamontjackson1251]

I always wondered what was this building growing up

[@NoraOHara-up5ig]

There is one error in this presentation that should be corrected. Hutzler's did actually open a store in the Cranberry Mall in Westminster. My mother ran the Credit Department and went to that store on occasion; I drove out there to meet her a few times. I cannot remember how long that location was open, but it did open.

[@retailstories]

Thank you. I don't think I can correct it easily, but I appreciate the comment and will see what I can do. Unfortunately, the source who informed me of the store almost existing must not have been as accurate as I had hoped.

[@jeffwalsh6015]

I lived in nearby Reisterstown, MD and went to Cranberry Mall shortly after it opened as a teen. There was never a Hutzler's there, only a Sears, Montgomery Ward and Caldor. Sorry, hon, you must be thinking of another Mall.

[@hhaste]

@@retailstories TownMall of Westminster wikipedia page says exactly what you said in the video

[@MikeyTheMamboKing]

Epstein's Dept. Store is another sad Baltimore story . I worked there.

[@The_Gent]

My Stepfather was the Manager of Hutzlers in Baltimore for years before it closed down after all the Apes destroyed Baltimore with their crime, murder and drug pushing