Long gone favorites you miss

[Kyle]

It always embarrasses me when my Mom wears this.

I mean Walmart is one thing, but it's just not appropriate for court.
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I see they're still running the AC on high.

 

[gemma_rae]

I see they're still running the AC on high.

No, we drove all the way there with the windows down this morning.

 

[TPD]

Seems the spinoff in New Zealand is doing fine. A friend who lives there said they just opened a new store next town over.

https://www.kmart.co.nz/

Funny you should say that - we were in a very nice K-Mart in a mall in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2018. I thought it was worth taking a picture of.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Funny you should say that - we were in a very nice K-Mart in a mall in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2018. I thought it was worth taking a picture of.

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Nicest looking mall I've seen.
That frieze above the shoppers is very well done.

 

[Merlin99]

My father had a construction company that had contracts with woodies, garfinkles and landsbergs... when one redesigned a floor, whatever, it was a succession of copy cats by the others. The old woodies in Northwest was full of old white lady money and they expected perfection.
When Metro came through, a lot of 1890's showcases, plaster cornices and decorations were demolished, including an old Grand Piano!!! In the 1900's there was normally a piano player playing popular songs while the upper crust shopped....

In Michigan around the holidays the malls hire string quartets to play all day, no idea how they would support themselves the rest of the year.

 

[RoseRed]

When I was really little, our Church in Mountain View (or Palo Alto?) always had a live nativity scene, including a live baby Jesus.

 

[Bird Dog]

When I was really little, our Church in Mountain View (or Palo Alto?) always had a live nativity scene, including a live baby Jesus.

Thats impossible.....
Nowhere in Mountain View (Palo Alto) could you of ever find "Three wise men.....or a Virgin"......

 

[RoseRed]

Thats impossible.....
Nowhere in Mountain View (Palo Alto) could you of ever find "Three wise men.....or a Virgin"......

Well, there is that. But the time frame was late 60's.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

Well, there is that. But the time frame was late 60's.

Likely there were 3 high men, so they thought there was a virgin.



You may :groan: now.

 

[Gilligan]

My father had a construction company that had contracts with woodies, garfinkles and landsbergs... when one redesigned a floor, whatever, it was a succession of copy cats by the others. The old woodies in Northwest was full of old white lady money and they expected perfection.
When Metro came through, a lot of 1890's showcases, plaster cornices and decorations were demolished, including an old Grand Piano!!! In the 1900's there was normally a piano player playing popular songs while the upper crust shopped....

Wow..you are really old.

 

[black dog]

People's Drug Stores with breakfast and lunch counters.

 

[GURPS]

People's Drug Stores with breakfast and lunch counters.

Back in the 90's when I was a plumber's helper .... this old ex-hippe I worked with, who grew up in Anacostia when the area was white, knew all the best lunch counters all over DC, little hole in the wall joints, you would never notice driving by, places in business since the 50's or earlier

Every week was a treat, I never knew where we were going to Friday Breakfast / Lunch next ... I've checked google street view, sadly the ones I could remember are long gone

 

[Kinnakeet]

301 drive in
Wigwam
HoJo's

 

[Gilligan]

Roys Place II in Columbia or Roys Place in Gaithersburg. 200 sammiches on the menu and all of them were awesome.

 

[stgislander]

People's Drug Stores with breakfast and lunch counters.

Our G.C. Murphy store had a breakfast and lunch counter. Our Grants department store had a sitdown Bradfords restaurant in it.

 

[Sneakers]

Firth's Market, Wading River, NY. Just a little tiny hole-in-the-wall grocery, but he had the best meats and the best ground beef. Aged, warped, worn wooden floors with gaps between the boards. The place had character. The building is still there, but it's changed hands a million times since I was a kid.

 

[mitzi]

I miss the lunch counters. Peoples Drug Store, GC Murphy, Woolworth, Drug Fair, Montgomery Wards, KMart, Memco. While shopping with Mom (my adult years) always took a break for coffee and a smoke at one of them. As a child, getting an ice cream sundae to escape the hot house in the summer.

 

[Gilligan]

Firth's Market, Wading River, NY. Just a little tiny hole-in-the-wall grocery, but he had the best meats and the best ground beef. Aged, warped, worn wooden floors with gaps between the boards. The place had character. The building is still there, but it's changed hands a million times since I was a kid.

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Sounds a lot like Dents/Chiefs in Tall Timbers.

 

[Sneakers]

Sounds a lot like Dents/Chiefs in Tall Timbers.

Yeah, kinda...

 

[KingFish]

Likely there were 3 high men, so they thought there was a virgin.



You may :groan: now.

Maybe they had virgin wool from an ugly sheep?