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Open Mondays through Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: 401 Euclid Avenue · Cleveland, Ohio
The Arcade provides shopping but is simply a picturesque architectural gem. It was built in 1890, financed by John D. Rockefeller (among others) and was the first building in Cleveland to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is flanked by two 9-story towers and features a 5-story glass sky lighted atrium with extremely ornate brass-filled interior and gargoyles peering down from the uppermost level.
Printout: The Arcade
Open daily (call to schedule a tour)
Location: Bucyrus, Ohio
Phone: 419-562-4215
Hop over to Cooper’s Cider Mill and see apples and berries go from the vine to spread. Cooper’s apple butter and jellies are sold far and wide. But David Cooper isn’t lying when he says, “it’s just like grandma used to make,” because it is. David learned to make apple butter at his grandma’s farm. Later, he bought a stirring pot and began making his own. Demand grew and a business was formed to handle the requests. For years the mixing was done by hand – David’s father-in-law’s hands – out in the yard. Today, the Cooper’s offer a complete behind-the-scenes tour of the entire production process and visitors get to witness the freshness, quality and care that go into every jar. Afterward, David’s wife Miriam has plenty of tasting stations set up for sampling throughout the country store next to the production plant. Inside, a new generation of Cooper’s is introducing another treat – fudge. The Cooper’s son started experimenting with making fudge for the fair and now has his own fudge station inside the family store.
Printout: Cooper's Cider Mill
Open daily
Location: downtown Wooster, Ohio
Phone: 330-264-7119
The store originally served as a laboratory to test customer response to new Rubbermaid products being manufactured in the nearby factory. The first such product was a patented rubber dustpan in 1933. Since then, Rubbermaid, now Newell-Rubbermaid remains a leader in developing cutting-edge technologies and products that have organized the lives of nearly every American for decades.
The store truly represents its name – Everything Rubbermaid – by offering the largest assortment of Rubbermaid products anywhere in the world. The 24,000 square feet of shopping has an enormous assortment of item that cannot be found anywhere else. The product line has grown to provide something for everyone. The selection includes items from Little Tikes, Irwin Tools, Sharpie, Shurline, Rubbermaid Commercial and, of course, the full line of Rubbermaid Home Products and Food Storage.
On closer inspection, signs of a storied history appear throughout the store. For example, there are old air tubes that were used, by the sales clerks, to send payment from the customer up to the fourth floor to process the receipt for purchases and return change. Today, the tube system is used at Christmas time as a fun way for the children to send their Christmas lists to Santa at the North Pole.
With new and different products comes, changes in the look of the store. At present, the first floor is “Bargain Land”. This wonderful world of savings features discontinued items and special purchases galore, with savings as much as 50 percent off! The bargain merchandise, which is continually changing, makes each trip to the store a new adventure. The fourth floor will be reopening soon as Bargain Land, to provide even more selection. Once this change is made, the first floor will feature product from Rubbermaid Commercial, outdoor storage and other related products.
The second floor features home organization, laundry and kitchen products, as well as a full line of cleaning items. The options seem as endless as the selection!
On the third floor there is a giant indoor playground where the children get a chance to try out the toys, expend some energy and make a lot of noise. The playground is surrounded by aisle after aisle of Little Tikes toys.
This one of a kind store also makes shopping easier than ever by offering shipping for any and all items purchased. Everything Rubbermaid’s Mail Order Department serves the lower 48 states through phone and fax Orders. For questions or to place an order, call 330-264-7119 or email everythingrubbermaid@hotmail.com.
Rubbermaid began as Wooster Rubber in 1920. The five businessmen who started the company by making toy balloons paved the way for Everything Rubbermaid and had their fame grow to iconic proportions.
Everything Rubbermaid is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 6:00, Saturday from 9:30 to 5:00, and Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 all year round. The store is closed on major holidays. For visitor information call 330-264-7119 or see www.everythingrubbermaidstore.com. Click here to get 15% off your entire purchase! (For mail orders, refer to code EVR01) For additional savings at other Wooster, Ohio merchants, click here.
Visitors’ Center Hours: Monday through Friday – 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. / Saturday – 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Visitors’ Center Location: 588 South Third Street, Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-221-8888
Columbus’ premiere downtown historic neighborhood filled with eclectic shops, award-winning restaurants, galleries and beautiful architecture.
Printout: German Village - Columbus
Location:
West Chester, Ohio
www.ikea.com
The Swedish home retailer IKEA is bringing its eclectic mix of furniture and house wares to Butler County, Ohio in Spring 2008. IKEA West Chester will offer shoppers trendy and chic designs at affordable prices and is also a fun and unique way to brighten up any home.
Located in West Chester, the first IKEA in Ohio will span 344,000-square feet and feature 10,000 exclusively designed contemporary home furnishing items, 50 room settings, three complete model homes, a supervised children’s play area, and a 300-seat restaurant serving Swedish specialties such as meatballs with lingonberries and salmon plates, as well as American dishes. Other family-friendly features will include a “Children’s IKEA” area in the showroom, baby care rooms, and preferred parking. Butler County, located in Southwest Ohio in the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor, is The Destination Designed for You! For more information about IKEA West Chester and Butler County, contact the Butler County Visitors Bureau at 888-462-2282 or go to www.destinationbutlercounty.com.
Printout: IKEA
Open daily 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: 5440 Dixie Hwy · Fairfield, OH 45014
Phone: 513-674-6000
Six acres of food under one roof – it's not a supermarket, it's a zoo-permarket! An international mecca, Jungle Jim's offers thousands of imported and national brand groceries: 10,000 wines, 1,000 beers, 1,600 cheeses, 1,000 kinds of hot sauce, one full acre of produce (including organic and international). If it's edible, you'll find it here! Jungle Jim's is truly a Food Lover's Paradise!
Featuring:
The Jungle Scene
complete with waterfall and wildlife.
The General Mills Big
G Cereal Bowl Band perched on the S.S. Minnow
Singing Creatures.
The Brain (a pesky
know-it-all employee).
The Giant Mushroom
rising above the one-acre produce department.
European gourmet
village.
The Cake Canopy,
International Elephant Gates and more.
Printout: Jungle Jim's Farmers Market
Keim Family Market
Burnt Cabin Road in Seaman, Ohio
Phone: 937-386-9995
Ohio Amish Country now includes Southwestern Ohio. In 1975, Amish families moved from the heart of Ohio’s Amish Country in Holmes County and settled in rural Adams County. Roy Keim began selling baked goods along side Route 32. From there, the Keim family businesses grew from its humble beginnings to an Amish superstore selling baked goods, bulk foods, full line delis with meat and cheese selections and almost anything you can imagine being made from wood. The bulk food selection includes spices and baking ingredients plus an enormous variety of canned goods, sugar-free foods and candies. Their indoor and outdoor furniture lines include hutches, bedroom sets, chairs and gliders. In addition, they hand build gazebos, children play sets, footbridges and even buildings. They provide credit card processing, UPS delivery, catalogs for their products and superb customer service.
Printout: Amish in Southwest Ohio
Open: Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Sunday from Noon - 5:00 p.m. (Factory Tours are offered weekdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Location: 423 South Broadway in Greenville, Ohio 45331
Phone: 1-888-886-8318
Factory Outlet shopping is avialbale downstairs where the heritage exhibits are displayed. These authentic KitchenAid™ artifacts are used to tell the history of an ever-evolving iconic American company. It explains how products were improved and refined over the years since 1919 when the first stand mixer was introduced. An original Model H KitchenAid™ stand mixer is also exhibited.
Tour the nearby mixing factory and see firsthand how the entire manufacturing process works. The tour enables visitors to see a stand mixer move to the final stage of assembly by peeking over the shoulder of an assembly line worker.
Printout: KitchenAid Experience & Tours
Open: Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 5:30 pm, open until 8 pm Thursday
Location: Kidron, Ohio (Wayne County), four miles south of Rte. 30 between Wooster and Canton
Phone: 330-858-5757 or 888-438-5346
A Piece of the Past makes an Excellent Present!
If you like the attractive, practical appliances of yesteryear, then you’re going to love Lehman’s. This family owned and operated business specializes in antique-styled appliances and retro home furnishings, non-electric kitchenware, old-time toys, hand tools, oil lamps, collectible cook books and much more. If you think it isn’t made any more, call Lehman’s before you give up!
Printout: Lehman's
Location: Loudonville, Ohio
Phone: 1-877-2-MOHICAN or see www.loudonville-mohican.com
Specialty shoppes abound in the Village of Loudonville. The old-fashioned service in this historic town make every shopping and dining experience memorable. Some of the favorite shoppes include Amish Oak Furniture, Native American jewelry and crafts at Creative Outlet, fine art at Copper Top Gallery, Mohican Windharps, and The Extraordinary Shoppe offering the largest selection of Red Hat items anywhere. Dine around at Books, Baubles, and Brew or Broken Rocks Café or Sojourner Café. It’s all good! As a true hotspot in Ohio tourism, Mohican and Loudonville deliver special events like no other throughout the year – even in winter!
Printout: Loudonville
Open:
9am-5pm Mondays through Saturdays and closed on Sundays
Location: 960 Wheat Ridge Road in West Union, Ohio 45693
Phone: 937-544-8524
The Miller Brothers
are continuing the family tradition of 30 years by providing the best possible
Amish baked goods, Amish-made furniture and Amish bulk foods. This Amish
family-owned business attracts folks from hundreds of miles away to their
southwest Ohio location. The furniture store alone has 34,000 square feet under
one roof and more outside, not to mention the separate building for the bakery
and another for the bulk foods.
Together, the Millers have 300 acres of Amish country!
Their motto is “If we don’t have it, we make it.”
Every year, there are special events and sales during Memorial Day Weekend, Labor Day Weekend, Fall Cookout, End of Year Clearance and from time-to-time, quilt auctions and other special occasions. 2007 marks their 30th Anniversary. On October 6, 2007, it will be a very special customer appreciation day you won’t want to miss.
Checks and all major credit cards accepted, gift certificates and layaway available. Get on the mailing list so you don’t miss a thing.
Printout: Miller's
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Location: 135 South Broadway · Akron, OH 44308
Phone: 330-253-5970
What was once the original Quaker Oats Company is now home to a unique-looking retail complex providing shopping, restaurants, hotel and entertainment center. The buildings, known as silos, are unique and are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The company’s rich history is told with historic advertising memorabilia and includes accounts of how Ferdinand Schumacher originally attempted to sell his breakfast oats as well as how a fire nearly destroyed everything.
Printout: Quaker Square
Open daily (call to schedule a tour)
Location: Bucyrus, Ohio
Phone: 1-866-562-0720 or 419-562-2721
At Romanoff Jewelers, small groups get an amazing tour of how jewelry is made from scratch. The tour begins with wax, which is used as a mold between rubber to create or replicate a certain design. The wax piece is added to a wax tree accompanying other pieces that will be cast from the same mix of gold. The tree is encased with a cement-type mixture and placed in a kiln where the wax melts to nothing leaving a cavern. The cavern is filled with heated liquefied gold, cooled and dismantled. Everything in the factory is recycled to recover gold dust, shavings and particles that over time add up to quiet a bit of money. There is even a special filter to catch gold that would have literally gone down the drain when employees wash their hands. The tour has many interesting tidbits that go into the entire jewelry making process and covers other intricate stages of the process including the polishing and setting of gemstones.
Printout: Romanoff Jewelers
Store Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sundays
Address: 333 Wadsworth Road (Rt. 57, ¼-mile north of Rt. 30), Orrville, Ohio 44667
Phone: 330-684-1500
Web: www.smuckers.com
With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good. ® And nowhere is this more true than at The J.M. Smucker Company Store and Café. Located in Orrville, Ohio, The J.M. Smucker Company Store and Café originally opened in 1999 and was recently expanded and renovated. Now twice its original size, the store retains its classic timber frame barn structure and is the premier showcase for The J.M. Smucker Company’s entire family of brands, including Smucker’s®, Jif®, Crisco®, Pillsbury®, Hungry Jack® and more.
The fabulous new café serves up fresh, tasty treats made with the company’s own branded ingredients, delicious pizzas baked in a wood-fired oven and mouthwatering sundaes topped with heavenly Smucker’s toppings. The store is packed with exclusive branded merchandise and one-of-a-kind gifts, including the Gift Basket Design Center, where you can create your own custom gift basket – the perfect gift for any occasion.
You’ll also want to take a journey from 1897 to the present day at The J.M. Smucker Company museum, where you’ll experience how the company started and how it continues to evolve today.
Finally, be sure to visit smuckers.com for a schedule of special events at the store, including classes, concerts and celebrity guests.
Printout: The J.M. Smucker Company Store and Café
Open Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: The corner of West 25th and Lorain in Cleveland’s Ohio City Neighborhood
Phone: 216-664-3386
Take a self-guided tour of this 1912 multi-cultural historical landmark. It is produce shopping old-world style and features more than 100 ethnic vendors selling first-rate vegetables, meats, fresh-fish, pastries and a lot more. There is a viewing area high above the main-market floor, which provides tourists with a panoramic view of the hustle and bustle going on below.
Printout: The West Side Market
Dubbed one of the most walkable communities in America and the Antique Capitol of the Midwest, the historic village of Waynesville, Ohio awaits your footsteps no matter if it's summer, fall, winter or spring.
This quaint small town is like none other. It's like an endless outdoor shopping mall set in the 1800s with character galore. Each little building or shop has a history, rich in Quaker heritage and Victorian architecture. The five-block “Old Main Street” is lined with more than 70 Mom & Pop shops featuring a wide-array of antiques, crafts, custom woodworking, collectibles, eateries, coffee houses and specialty shops. Whether it's the middle of winter or a hot summer day, it is always buzzing with pedestrians on a shopping binge.
Waynesville offers visitors a nostalgic experience as they meander by and through the charming buildings from the 1800s, past copper street lamps on brick sidewalks gazing at the seemingly endless restored Victorian homes turned shops with colorful window boxes and street-side benches.
Merchants are often seen unloading their trucks with their newest (or oldest) additions to their inventory coming from estate sales nation- sometimes world-wide or far off or nearby places that they travel too in order to obtain the lore that someone will undoubtedly find and say, "this piece completes…" Whether shopping with purpose, merely browsing or just looking for a nice place to take a stroll, Waynesville is the place to do it - in style.
Information about Waynesville is available online at www.waynesvilleohio.com, www.waynesvilleshops.com, and www.ohio4fun.org. Visitors can pick up a self-guided walking tour brochure at The Museum at the Friends Home or make an appointment with a local historian and official Towne Crier to undertake an in-depth historical tour of Main Street and the Quaker Historical District by calling 513-897-1607. On the tour, visitors will also learn why this small town has also become widely known as the Most Haunted Town in Ohio.
WOOSTER, OHIO
Shop A Great American Main Street
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Experience shopping is where you can still see, hear, touch, smell and taste the local culture. And in downtown Wooster, Ohio all five senses are filled with delight.
Everywhere there are signs of a vibrant downtown. It is seen in shopkeepers’ faces along the eclectic storefronts. It is seen in the downtown residents looking out their windows from their second story lofts. It is even seen in the faces of construction workers building new lofts to meet the surging demand of people eager to move downtown.
The downtown scene is filled with a diverse selection of stores and services. Many people come for the shopping, exercise, restaurants, and entertainment. There is new construction at the library, historic churches around the corner, nearby College of Wooster and county fairgrounds all adding to the ambiance of Wooster, Ohio, past winner of The Great American Main Street Award.
A day in town may start by meeting up at the gazebo in the square. From there, you can grab a cup-o-joe at Muddy Waters Café, Seattle’s Coffee House or Tulipan Hungarian Pastry & Coffee Shop.
Although plenty of ATM machines are around town, many mistakenly walk into Gallery in the Vault looking for money and walk out with artwork. The former bank turned art store features the grand old vault and stashes of Ohioan artwork flowing out of it. Over at Moorefield Pottery, a local potterist and her mother display their creations along with other Ohio pottery collections. And if handcrafted jewelry is appealing, and I’m sure it is, be sure to visit MacKenzie’s Silver & Gold for something made-to-order. Gifts galore beckon you to A Sentimental Journey and The Wooster Gift Corner. But if you are truly seeking to walk away with that one-of-a-kind shopping experience, take a look at Artfind Tile where the artist in residence has rare tile from around the world.
Antiquing is considered an art form by many. For those that do, pay a visit to Uptown/Downtown Antique Emporium where there are more than 100 consignment booths to browse or for unique high-end consignments of furniture and more, be sure to see Frientique.
Around midday, before or after a meal at a fine local eatery, you may stop in a local spa for some spoil-me time or sit and read at Wooster Book Company or Books In Stock featuring more than 80,000 rare reads.
Now about that meal! Whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner, the town is filled with traditional family-owned and operated restaurants and unique eateries. Here is the menu:
A top-20 Northeast Ohio restaurant with two great young chefs making a name for themselves at The South Market Bistro.
Outdoor or indoor dining at The Olde Jaol and Tavern.
Or maybe you are one that could eat breakfast all day. In that case, or for lunch, go to the local spot to be – The Parlor.
Pizza lovers need Tomassetti’s pizza experience.
There’s TJ’s serving up three restaurants in one, including CW Burgerstein’s and Melvins.
For daily specialty soup and sandwiches, Thomas’ Deli and Market is a must.
Don’t forget to stop at the Downtown Grill and Café in the Wooster Plaza full service hotel.
And on that last note, after a tasty dish and day of walking, you may need a room. If so, try The Best Western Wooster Plaza or Barrister’s End bed and breakfast.
Once your battery recharges, there is more to see and do.
For the traditionalist that remembers yesteryear and the old-town department stores that served as a community’s retail anchor, stop in and say “hi” to the friendly people at the 120-year-old Freelander Department Store. Alterations are provided on the spot. Nearby, furniture like no other and gorgeous home accessories can be had at Roomscapes, Timbuktu and Jerry’s Home Furnishings.
As you can see, Wooster is full-service experience shopping right down to the uncommon Sam & Stan’s Army Navy Store, which is gigantic, to the third-generation downtown Buehler’s Grocery Store, Wooster Natural Foods, Pierce’s Sport Shop and more.
But what makes this a true experience shopping destination is at the corner of Market and Liberty Street where they have been organizing America for years at Everything Rubbermaid. The historic four-story building has the traditional product line’s signature items plus Irwin Tools, Little Tikes Toys, and a spacious indoor playground.
Wooster. It is not just a great place to visit, it is a great place to live. You do not have to ask the locals, their faces will tell you.
When planning your own Wooster shopapalooza, be sure to print a day full of savings and freebies at http://www.ohiotraveler.com/wooster.htm. For more information about Wooster, including directions, visit http://mainstreetwooster.org/.
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