The H.C. Prange Co. Store at the corner of 8th and
Wisconsin avenue in central Sheboygan
The H. C. Prange Co.
727 W. 8th Street
Sheboygan, WisconsinSHEBOYGAN STORE DIRECTORY
Downstairs Store
Drugs • Housewares • Innovations for the Home • Sporting Goods • Toys • Camera Shop • Records • Paint • Home Fix-it Shop
Prange's Budget Store
Street Floor
Fine Jewelry • Pendulum Shop • Fashion Jewelry • Handbags • Gloves • Small Leather Goods • Neckwear • Handkerchiefs • Hosiery • Cosmetics • Toiletries • Hat Bar • Blouse Bar • Street Floor Sportswear • Casual Corner • Street Floor Lingerie • Studio III • Shoe Salon • Children's Shoes • Notions • Contemporary Novelties • Sundries • Stationery • Candle Shop • Office Machines • Candy • Men's Dress Shirts and Ties • Men's Furnishings • Men's Gifts • Male Scents • Men's Sportswear • 505 Shop • Men's Clothing • Young Man's Shop • Boys' Wear • Men's Fashion Footwear • Prange's Grocery
Wisconsin Avenue Annex Garden Shop
Appliance Annex Appliances • Small Appliances • Televisons • Radios • Stereos
Mezzanine
Soda Fountain
Second Floor
Terrace Room Restaurant • Sportswear • Moderate Price Dresses • Women's World • Daytime Dresses • Uniforms • Town Shop • Colony Shop • Cosmopolitan Shop • Better Dresses • Better Sportswear • Studio 7 • After-Five Shop • Crystal Room • Coats • Better Coats • Suede and Leather Shop • Four Seasons • Fur Salon • Bridal Salon • Millinery • Wig Boutique • Hat Bar • Foundations • Daywear • At-Home Shop • Sleepwear
Junior Colony Junior Sportswear • Junior Dresses • Junior Coats • Young Juniors
Children's World Infants' and Toddlers'• Girls' Accessories • Girls' Wear • Twixt-Teen Shop • Teen Shop • 3-7 Boys' • Juvenile Furniture
Third Floor
Domestics • Linens • Bedding • Fiedcrest Shop • Bath Shop • Pillow Talk • China • Silverware • Glassware • Gifts • Bar & Wine Shop • Contempo • Lamps • Pictures and Mirrors • Decorative Accessories • Luggage • Drapery Shop • Carpeting • Area and Scatter Rugs • Fashion Fabrics • Needlecraft
Fourth Floor
Furniture Galleries • Interior Decorating Studio • Young America Shop • Good Design for Good Living • Books • Adult Games • Beauty Salon • Rogers Crocker Photographic Studio • Personnel Office • Credit Office • Cash Office • Executive Offices
Service Center (North 18th St. at Martin Avenue)
Garden Shop • Appliances • Televisons • Radios • Stereos • Furniture • Sleep Shop
GREEN BAY
The H.C. Prange Co. Store in Green Bay consisted of
an original building and several additions
H. C. Prange Co. (1927/1966)
301 North Washington Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin
APPLETON
Prange's purchased Appleton's Pettibone-Peabody Co.
in 1946 and expanded the store to six floors in 1961
H. C. Prange Co. (1946)
126 West College Avenue
Appleton, Wisconsin
APPLETON STORE DIRECTORY
Basement
Drugs • Housewares • Innovations for the Home • Sporting Goods • Toys • Camera Shop • Records • Paint • Home Fix-it Shop • Garden Shop
Prange's Budget Store
Street Floor
Fine Jewelry • Pendulum Shop • Fashion Jewelry • Handbags • Gloves • Small Leather Goods • Neckwear • Handkerchiefs • Hosiery • Cosmetics • Toiletries • Hat Bar • Blouse Bar • Street Floor Lingerie • Studio III • Notions • Contemporary Novelties • Sundries • Stationery • Candle Shop • Office Machines • Candy • Men's Dress Shirts and Ties • Men's Furnishings • Men's Gifts • Male Scents • Men's Sportswear • 505 Shop • Men's Clothing • Young Man's Shop • Men's Fashion Footwear
Appleton Street The Midway Restaurant
Appleton and Washington The Hutch • Fashion-Aire Beauty Salon
Second Floor
Sportswear • Moderate Price Dresses • Women's World • Daytime Dresses • Uniforms • Town Shop • Colony Shop • Cosmopolitan Shop • Better Dresses • Better Sportswear • Studio 7 • After-Five Shop • Crystal Room • Coats • Better Coats • Suede and Leather Shop • Four Seasons • Fur Salon • Bridal Salon • Millinery • Wig Boutique • Hat Bar • Foundations • Daywear • At-Home Shop • Sleepwear
Third Floor
Shoe Salon
Junior Colony Junior Sportswear • Junior Dresses • Junior Coats • Young Juniors
Children's World Infants' and Toddlers'• Girls' Accessories • Girls' Wear • Twixt-Teen Shop • Teen Shop • 3-7 Boys' • Boys' Wear • Juvenile Furniture • Children's Shoes
Fourth Floor
Domestics • Linens • Bedding • Fiedcrest Shop • Bath Shop • Pillow Talk • China • Silverware • Glassware • Gifts • Bar & Wine Shop • Contempo • Decorative Accessories • Luggage • Area and Scatter Rugs • Fashion Fabrics • Needlecraft
Fifth Floor
Furniture Galleries • Interior Decorating Studio • Young America Shop • Good Design for Good Living • Drapery Shop • Carpeting • Lamps • Pictures and Mirrors
Sixth Floor
Appliances • Televisons • Radios • Stereos • Books • Adult Games • Personnel Office • Cresit Office • Cash Office
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ReplyDeleteAnother of the stores that I grew up with (Having lived in Sturgeon Bay, Marquette, MI, and Manitowoc). When I moved to Manitowoc in 1996, they were just closing (and may have been converted to a Prange Way store prior).
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Sheboygan. I will never forget my Mother and I going shopping, that was the best store I have ever been to. I will always remember the wonderful Christmas Displays in the windows for little childrento enjoy. Those were the days.....:-) :-)
ReplyDeleteAbsoluteley!! Mine was with my Mom in Green Bay store. Awesome Christmas window decorations. And "Bruce The Spruce" talking Christmas tree. Sigh.... Want those times back. Balanced with making some new awesome memories to be. : , )
DeleteLoved the Carmel corn made in the big copper kettle near the back door!
DeleteI worked at the Sheboygan Prange store and warehouse 1971 to '72 after high school. It was more than just a store to me. All the wonderful people I worked with in many of the depts. The folks that came to shop. The lonesome retired people that made it to that store almost every day. And, of course, Christmas time! Prange's was a hub for great variety of people of all ages. Unique....even in it's day.
ReplyDeleteI worked in the Green Bay store for several years back in the late 70's and remember it being the center piece of downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin and Washington street. Holzer's drugs was across the street with the best pies in town and it seemed most of the business executives in the area met there for every morning for coffee to start their days. Man, what a time! When Washing street ruled the day and Prange's animated Christmas displays where eagerly awaited each year. People would line up outside just to watch them. Some good times for me back then and a unique time that I was glad to be apart of.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to mention Bruce the Spruce talking Christmas tree. My mom worked there durring that same time frame. Mary Naniot. Thanks for sparking some memories!!
DeleteAlso thanks for mentioning the name Holzers. Does sound vaguely familiar. My Mom always just called it the corner drug store. : , )
DeleteI remember shopping at the Prange's at Southridge Mall back in the early 90s. Younker's eventually replaced it and I worked there. I remember seeing the Prange's charge card as an option to pay on the register.
ReplyDeleteI remember the sheboygan store Christmas decorations. I did here they did save the Christmas display and they I have it at the sheboygan museum. Also then watching it burn down then they rebuild the store as a 1 story building. Then after many years it was renamed Yonkers then a few years later it changed to a Boston store. A few years later the store closed. Now they have torn it down.
ReplyDeleteThe store first partially collapsed due to water main break and it was not possible to repair the damage. As it stood empty the building caught fire and was completely destroyed. There was a local gentleman that always showed up at fires to watch them and the rumor was that he actually started the blaze. I believe he went missing and was never seen again after the fire
DeleteHello my mother left me a vanity made by h.c. prange and im not sure where to take it and have someone be able to look at it and tell me anything about it.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Los Angeles but would visit my grandparents, the Hotz's, in Sheboygan, a few times during the summer. I still have a commemorative Prange's plate and remember buying a light pink lipstick there when I was 13. This is back in the 60's. Grand memories. Dena
ReplyDeleteWould love to have the recipes from the bakery! Have tried several times to do the sour cream muffins, or cream filled coffee cake and nothing even comes close!!
ReplyDeleteWould love to have the recipes from the bakery for sour cream muffins and cream filled coffee cake. Have tried to figure them out and nothing even comes close. I remember driving back to my grandmothers house every year from Minnesota and bringing back boxes of these!
ReplyDeleteI loved the Chicken Dumpling Soup from the small restaurant on the first level of the Sheboygan store. I cannot find a recipe for that but would love it!
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DeleteI grew up on a farm in Sheboygan county.over 50 years ago It was such a big deal and treat when we took the time to go to Prange's. We got to go about 4-6 times a year. August for new school cloths, for my Christmas dress , at Easter for Easter cloths and then for my birthday. Funny to think back then driving 30 minutes to the store was special. My fondest memories are of the bakery, and then riding the escalator and elevator in the store and the Christmas windows Us farmer kids were easily amused. It was a sad day when the Prange's store burned in Sheboygan In my opinion even though the new store was nice and modern it took away the "homey/welcoming feeling the old store had. We always brought a cream filled coffee cake when we would go.
ReplyDelete"It's Not Yours Till You Like It: H.C. Prange, A Sheboygan Institution" is a wonderful book.
ReplyDeleteI remember H.C. Prange's at the West Towne Mall in Madison. One story my family loves to share is one time when we were very young, my younger sister who was about 4 or 5 at the time (around 1969 or 1970), must have been trying to check out the mannequins at one of the entrance displays and suddenly all the mannequins came crashing to the floor. I think that Prange's eventually became a Younkers (correct me if I'm wrong) and is now a Boston Store. Fond memories of H.C. Prange's while shopping at West Towne when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom (Corrine Brasser) worked in the original Sheboygan store in the 50s and 60s, first in grocery and candy counter, later in accounting. She was allowed to take home leftover caramel corn on Friday nights, sang in the employee choir at Christmas (sacred and secular songs on main floor), and bought me shoes after I'd stood on the big x-ray machine for 30 seconds or so looking at my toes through my shoes! (My feet are still intact.) Christmas decorations were the best (as others have mentioned) - many automated figures, viewed with my grandpa the day after Thanksgiving I believe. Had Prange-family friends later at North High.
ReplyDeleteSheboygan's Prange's address was 727 N. 8th Street, not W. 8th Street.
ReplyDeleteIt's Thanksgiving week 2017. I sit here and ponder Thanksgiving's from my past and one of my greatest memories is after we had our Thanksgiving feast, we would pile in our cars and drive to Appleton to see the displays in the Pranges windows. I sure do miss those displays.
ReplyDeleteI remember the Wausau store's Christmas windows, which my parents and I would go to check out in the early 1970s. The building is still standing, but now it's filled with several white collar businesses. I miss both Prange's and Prangeway!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone remember the Trimmers beauty salon located in the Prange's department store in Wausau in the seventies? If so, can anyone tell what kind of shampoo was used and sold in the salon? It was pink in color and in a brownish bottle? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThere was a salon in Wisconsin Rapids also and I was trying to remember the name of the shampoo also. What I remember is the great way my hair felt after using and the awesome fragrance!
DeleteWow: Pranges Store downtown Green Bay. That was me late 1970's I was a kid about 10. I grew up with my grandparents and my grandmother would take me to the top floor of Pranges to their terrace restaurant and on weekend we would have wonderful sandwiches for lunch or a great breakfast, during the week however they had a full on dinner served in courses it was awesome then my grandmother would go try on 100 outfits and nothing ever seemed to fit her so we would likely go back to next week and repeat the whole thing, great memories!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease bring the Prange stores back, there must be some Prange children left in Sheboygan to start over again and make the building like the original one it is so missed
ReplyDeleteI have a Mansfield movie projector in it’s original Prange, Green Bay box. Is there a museum or place in Green Bay I could donate this to?
ReplyDeleteYou might want to contact the Neville Public Museum of Brown County (which, it just so happens, is located directly across the Fox River from the old downtown Green Bay Prange's). They do an exhibit about the old Prange's Christmas window display every year. And if they don't want it they may know another institution that does.
ReplyDeleteIs there a picture of Bruce the Spruce, the variety that had eyes?
ReplyDeleteCheck the Sheboygan County Historical museum website - Bruce now lives there. There is also a book about Prange's available through the Sheb Cty Historical research center.
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