#71 Saks Fifth Avenue

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2008

⏱️ 30 minutes

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A podcast that's "very Saks Fifth Avenue," we get to the origins of the famous upscale retailer, follow its path from Washington D.C. to Heralds Square and then to "the most expensive street in the world," and tell you a little about a glamorous milliner named Tatiana. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 71, Sachs 5th Avenue.
0:04.5	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:06.1	Hey.
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0:20.8	Hello there, welcome to The Bowry Boys. My name is Greg Young.
0:23.7	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:25.0	Today's show is a little bit of a holiday spin
0:27.8	because we are going on 5th Avenue to one of the swankiest department stores in New York City.
0:32.7	That would happen to be, of course, Sachs 5th Avenue.
0:35.4	You know, Greg, I think it was about a year ago that we did Macy's.
0:39.4	Well, right before Thanksgiving, right?
0:41.4	Absolutely right.
0:42.4	And, you know, this will have some parallels to it.
0:44.9	Well, of course, they're both department stores in New York City.
0:48.0	And as we'll find out, they were both at one point in Harold Square together.
0:53.8	But Sachs went on a slightly different direction than Macy's did.
0:57.4	Macy's is sort of, I would say, a mainstream department store.
1:01.4	Some people would actually say that Sachs isn't even a department store at all.
1:05.7	It's true. It's mostly clothing with a few extra services and accessories throughout.
1:11.5	But its story traces not only the history of commerce in New York City,
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