Department stores in CNY

Edited Witherill's AI. Courtesy Meta Platforms, Inc.

    While I have been covering several department store chains this month, I there are more that were in Syracuse, mainly before my time, that are long gone. It's getting more painstaking to even find free photos for each one, let alone find where they even had stores. I will just list the rest in this post. I won't mention the time of year I wrote this so it's not too seasonal in nature. I have heard of these over the years here and there. It'd be hard for them to get on today when some of the larger chains are struggling right now. Only ones I don't plan on covering separately are listed, but if I do one, it will be deleted.

AI Bonwit Teller. Courtesy Meta Platforms, Inc.

Witherills (pictured at top); downtown Syracuse and Camillus Plaza (only two stores ever)

Anderson Little

Cohoes (Fayetteville Mall; now Stickley Furniture at Towne Center)

Filenes Basement (never had Filenes proper since it was sister to Sibleys and Kaufmanns, even though Filenes Basement had spun off later)

Bonwit Teller (Carousel Center [now Destiny USA newer section; including closed Forever 21]) (above)

Macys Closeout (possibly in Penn Can Mall. Smaller Macys proper downtown.)

Denbys (Penn Can Mall; now Drivers Village)

Channel Home Center (Airport Plaza in North Syracuse which was later P&C and is now Tops)

Zayre (Northern Lights Plaza in North Syracuse; later Ames and Staples; now vacant)