Shopping has always been popular in Cleveland, whether during the era of the giant department store or later on, when those department stores were closed but we kept shopping because it's the Midwest and we're bored.
The landscape has changed, with big box stores and strip malls and Amazon dominating all, and while there are still plenty of local shop and stores to patronize, here are the ones that have closed that we'll remember most fondly.In 2009, after 26 years in Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights, Vidstar Video closed. At its peak, revenue hit close to $400,000 a year and the beloved store even survived the Blockbuster takeover of America, but was eventually squeezed out by streaming.
There was also an auditorium, a barber shop, a playground, a daycare and more than 2,500 employees at its height, when there were nine other locations. Many closed in the 1980s and 90s and the downtown store closed in 1993. Kaufmann’s took over the other stores that were still open.Located at the Eastgate Shopping Center in Mayfield Heights, the Eastgate Coliseum, where Target currently is, had it all.
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