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Originally Posted by MTL-514
What newspaper was this from? The Toronto Globe and Mail?
Their research skills are questionable...
Abercrombie & Fitch had a large store here in Montreal for at least a couple of years when the Place Montreal Trust shopping mall opened on Ste-Catherine Street and McGill College Avenue at the end of the 1980s.
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Yep, there was one in Toronto too. On two floors of the Exchange Tower, were the Starbucks and the food court are. That was back in the day when Abercrombie & Fitch was still the store where Teddy Roosevelt had bought his gear for the Spanish American War. It was the land of the $400.00 croquet set.
That A&F didn't survive the early '90s recession. The name was bought by (the Limited?) and turned into what you see today before it was spun off into a separate company. The original Abercrombie store in New York was across Madison from where Brooks Brothers flagship was and still is. Their Toronto location was empty well into the mid nineties, possibly until the time when the TSE closed its trading floor and that part of the building was gutted and rebuilt as it is now.