Yeah Pete this brings back a lot of memories as my mother did the same with me to look at all the windows and then up to toy land where the electric trains always caught my attention.  Oh yes those weird wooden escalators you really had to know on how to get on and off safely.  Can you imagine how many folks could handle them today while reading their phones!!!!!!!  I worked in the Eaton's annex during one summer in the appliance dept.  Ah those were the days.  Remember the vacuum tube containers where you had to put in the cash along with hand written invoice you wrote and hoped that the change and receipt returned!!!!!!  Bob.

Ya of course, all those memories already described but maybe I can go one better, my mom worked there, an adjuster, which meant she got all the complaints on defective or damage products and had authority to settle with customers to "make them Happy"  so she got a staff discount of 15% on all products plus she knew where the warehouse of returned goods was! What an exciting trip that was when we went, you know scratch and dents for like 50% off. It was like a flea market before there were flea markets.