Comments on: Stores of the Past http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/ Tales of my ancestors and my adventures searching for them Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debra http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3421 Debra Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:57:50 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3421 Kitty: Your description of your shopping area sounds like Bethany when I came to college in 1969--there were shopping centers around, but the main street square still had all the essentials--a bank, a couple of dress shops, a shoe store, a furniture store, drug store, TG&Y, a really good bakery, bookstore, etc, etc. Those have mostly been replaced, though the bakery still stands. yum. Thanks for stopping by. Kitty: Your description of your shopping area sounds like Bethany when I came to college in 1969–there were shopping centers around, but the main street square still had all the essentials–a bank, a couple of dress shops, a shoe store, a furniture store, drug store, TG&Y, a really good bakery, bookstore, etc, etc. Those have mostly been replaced, though the bakery still stands. yum. Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Kitty http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3389 Kitty Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:34:50 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3389 Where I grew up in Lakewood, California everthing was brand new when we moved in in 1951. It was an unincorporated area 8 miles from downtown Long Beach. In 1953 Lakewood Shopping Center (one of the first and largest malls in America) was built and became our downtown. In 1955 Lakewood became it's own city. We shopped at the mall, but where we did most of our shopping was a one block area on a small street that intersected two major streets on a diagonal. We called it the Triangel! There was a Bank of America, Post Office, Eye Doctor, shoe repair, drug store, hardware, dime store and shoe store. This was our "Main Street" and all the business offered the same things you talked about in your bog. Today the bank is a dance studio and yarn shop. The drugstore is a used book store. The hardware is a parking lot and the dime store is doctor's offices, but the shoe store is still there. It is where we always got our school shoes and yes our Buster Brown X-rays! I still shop there for shoes because they are one of the only stores I can find fashionable Double E width shoes! And of course the book store and yarn shop becon me often. Where I grew up in Lakewood, California everthing was brand new when we moved in in 1951. It was an unincorporated area 8 miles from downtown Long Beach. In 1953 Lakewood Shopping Center (one of the first and largest malls in America) was built and became our downtown. In 1955 Lakewood became it’s own city. We shopped at the mall, but where we did most of our shopping was a one block area on a small street that intersected two major streets on a diagonal. We called it the Triangel! There was a Bank of America, Post Office, Eye Doctor, shoe repair, drug store, hardware, dime store and shoe store. This was our “Main Street” and all the business offered the same things you talked about in your bog. Today the bank is a dance studio and yarn shop. The drugstore is a used book store. The hardware is a parking lot and the dime store is doctor’s offices, but the shoe store is still there. It is where we always got our school shoes and yes our Buster Brown X-rays! I still shop there for shoes because they are one of the only stores I can find fashionable Double E width shoes! And of course the book store and yarn shop becon me often.

]]> By: Debra http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3223 Debra Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:52:09 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3223 I love the concept of a "really full service" drug store. I'm thinking I'd rather use the method the English teacher told you about, however. thanks so much for stopping by. I love the concept of a “really full service” drug store. I’m thinking I’d rather use the method the English teacher told you about, however. thanks so much for stopping by.

]]> By: Terry Thornton http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3210 Terry Thornton Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:03:03 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3210 DEBRA, Small town stores just can't be beat --- and everyone should have been so fortunate as you to have a "full service" hardware store AAND a "really full service" drug store. The first town where I taught was in a dry county but within the first week of my employment one of the older teachers in the English department took me aside and told me who to call for "home delivery" and whatever spirits I needed. That little town didn't have a drug store to provide bottled spirits. LOL! Yes, I remember those "snack" sets. I think there is a box or so of them packed away in the attic. Terry Thornton Fulton, MS HILL COUNTRY OF MONROE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI DEBRA, Small town stores just can’t be beat — and everyone should have been so fortunate as you to have a “full service” hardware store AAND a “really full service” drug store. The first town where I taught was in a dry county but within the first week of my employment one of the older teachers in the English department took me aside and told me who to call for “home delivery” and whatever spirits I needed. That little town didn’t have a drug store to provide bottled spirits. LOL!

Yes, I remember those “snack” sets. I think there is a box or so of them packed away in the attic.

Terry Thornton
Fulton, MS
HILL COUNTRY OF MONROE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI

]]> By: allmyanc http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3203 allmyanc Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:22 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3203 I wondered if anyone else would recognize the snack sets--they were a real fixture for social events in my small town in the 60s. Every lady in church had at least one set and they all knew how many the others had and who to call to get enough for whatever event they were hosting. And it sounds like hardware stores in small town America used to be the "fix-it" place--that was before planned obsolescence, I guess. Thanks so much for stopping by. I wondered if anyone else would recognize the snack sets–they were a real fixture for social events in my small town in the 60s. Every lady in church had at least one set and they all knew how many the others had and who to call to get enough for whatever event they were hosting. And it sounds like hardware stores in small town America used to be the “fix-it” place–that was before planned obsolescence, I guess. Thanks so much for stopping by.

]]> By: Wendy http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/08/19/stores-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3202 Wendy Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:43:11 +0000 http://allmyancestors.com/blog/?p=209#comment-3202 We had the snack sets you pictured! I love those! Also - speaking of parts for coffee pots. My mom broke the glass top from the percolator and when we visited my sister in NE Ohio, she told us about a hardware store that had "parts" stuff. Sure enough they had the right part so my mom didn't have to get a new percolator! We had the snack sets you pictured! I love those! Also – speaking of parts for coffee pots. My mom broke the glass top from the percolator and when we visited my sister in NE Ohio, she told us about a hardware store that had “parts” stuff. Sure enough they had the right part so my mom didn’t have to get a new percolator!

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