From Detroit - Vintage Tall Building Pornography

From  1994, Hudson's department store, after closure, prior to demolition.

A quick list of facts, many courtesy of the Detroit Historical Museum:

The store was 2,124,316 square feet, making it second in size among department stores to only Macy’s in New York. Even then, Macy’s is only 26,000 square feet bigger.

The store was spread out over 32 floors: 25 floors, two half-floors, a mezzanine and four basements.
At 410 feet, Hudson’s was the tallest department store in the world.

The building had 51 passenger elevators, 17 freight elevators, eight employee elevators and 48 escalators. Its largest freight elevator could accommodate a semi trailer.

Hudson’s had to have three transformer centers in the store: They generated enough juice to power a city of about 20,000.

The store had 39 men’s restrooms, 50 for women and 10 private ones for executives. The largest was a women’s lounge on the fourth floor that had a whopping 85 stalls.

It had 705 fitting rooms, a world record.

The dining rooms and cafeterias served an average of 10,000 meals a day - not counting the 6,000 meals a day served in the employee cafeteria on the 14th floor. The 13th floor dining room was renowned for its Maurice salad and Canadian cheese soup.

The store originally had 18 entrances and 100 display windows, which were changed weekly.

The store featured more than 200 departments across an incredible 49 acres of floor space, and it featured about 600,000 items from 16,000 vendors from 40 countries. The building had 51 elevators serving its 17 floors of retail.