The building had 51 elevators serving its 17 floors of retail. 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.There were 49 large display windows facing Woodward, Gratiot, Farmer and Grand River Avenues, and there were an additional 50 interior display windows in areas - such as the elevator corridors and in the Woodward Shops on the seventh floor. The 13th floor dining room was renowned for its Maurice salad and Canadian cheese soup. 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.It had 705 fitting rooms, a world record.The largest was a women's lounge on the fourth floor that had a whopping 85 stalls. The store had 39 men's restrooms, 50 for women and 10 private ones for executives.Hudson's had to have three transformer centers in the store: They generated enough juice to power a city of about 20,000.Its largest freight elevator could accommodate a semi trailer.
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