The J. L. Hudson Company (commonly known simply as Hudson's) was a upscale retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998),[1] was the tallest department store in the world in 1961,[2] and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States, by square footage.
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