Then: Walker Store

An attractive new store with merchandise artistically arranged in large display windows opened on Queen Street in 1940. The Walker department store had been in Niagara Falls for 10 years, but this new location had departments for ladies ready-to-wear clothes, babies, linens & wools, house furnishings, curtains and floor coverings. "Special attention" was paid to staff comforts, with a lunch room on the basement level. A grand opening had company officials from Toronto in attendance, and featured floral offerings and live music by the Harold Bradley trio.

Now: Queen Street Medical Building

The Walker Store closed in 1974, and Marks & Spencer moved in for a few years. It closed in 1979, and Simpson-Sears Limited catalogue outlet shared the space with Allstate Insurance.

Today, the Queen Street Medical Building occupies both the Walker building and the former location of Ballett's Ladies Wear.

Niagara Falls Public Library. 2017. Niagara Falls - Then & Now: A Photographic Journey Through The Years. Walker Store/ Queen Street Medical Building

Niagara Falls Then and Now
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Niagara Falls Museums - Niagara Falls Public Library - Dept. of Geography and Tourism Studies,Brock University.
Original newspaper series by Sherman Zavitz, Official Historian for the City of Niagara Falls from 1994 - 2019.

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