They said goodbye to the legendary department store Prior, it will be apartments – SME
The first moving stairs were fascinated by generations.
Liptovský Mikuláš. People stood in front of the door in rows, waiting impatiently until they could get inside. The farewell to the Prior department store in Liptovsky Mikulas was similar to its opening. Full of expectations, albeit with a dose of nostalgia and memories of the time when Nicholas Prior was the center of shopping in Liptov.
Every Lipták has memories of it. Children were particularly attracted by escalators, moving stairs, the first ever in the region, after which they drove up and down. Whatever people needed, they were sure to buy it in Priors and under one roof.
Liptovsky Mikulas department store ends. What was in the past his advantage from which they benefited was later proved to be a weakness. Priors were built especially in cities or close to each other to be easily accessible to everyone. But there were not so many cars, so Priory didn’t need large car parks.
Today the situation is different, people go shopping where they can park comfortably and preferably free of charge. Shopping therefore moved to the edge of the cities, to new shopping centers with large parking lots.
First weaving, then a department store. Prior at Liptov ends Read
The Liptovsky Mikulas Prior will soon become a residential and apartment complex. However, the owner does not change, still owned by the company’s department stores Prior center. The owners will preserve a substantial part of the Priora, the architecture holds the original appearance. In addition, shopping spaces will remain in the premises accessible from the square.
Babeta had to wait
Liptovsky Mikulasky Prior closed almost a year ago. The public had the last opportunity to walk through the space of the iconic department store, even to visit places where one normally did not get. The last farewell to the inhabitants of the city was prepared by young people associated around the brick factory festival.
What a visitor, another story. For the last time, the Prior department store has been entered mainly by older generations, which mentioned not only shopping, but especially employment in one of the departments of the department store. They agreed on one, Prior was a pulsating center of life in the city center, and shopping in it had a kind of added value.
« What you needed, you bought here. Prior was supplied very well. We bought strollers for children, electrical appliances, but also babe, for example, they had to be a counselor, » the commemorative farewell to Prior.
The legendary was also a buffet where people went to breakfast or to lunchwhen they returned from the doctor.
The Prior department store had four floors. On the ground floor there were food, snacks, household goods, electrical and drugstores. On the first floor were sold clothing, shoes, piece textiles, meter textiles, leather haberdashery and textile haberdashery. They were up warehousesand on the top floor there were offices and apprenticeship. It was also mentioned by Nicholas Janko, who worked as a master of vocational education.
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