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| katmom |
Posted - Jun 06 2017 : 9:11:51 PM
So Mildred,,, did you hear? there is a new fabric store opening up in town and they are giving away free Apron patterns!
EEEK! I am sooooo excited!!!
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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| katmom |
Posted - Jun 13 2017 : 3:50:12 PM
I hear ya, Anne,,, we lived in New Britain (1966) while daddy worked in Hartford at the Army Reserve Building.
And yep,,, many a time mother would dress sis & I up to go shopping... no matter if it was a Five & Dime store or a high end Department store.
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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| 1Anne |
Posted - Jun 13 2017 : 12:56:11 PM
Isn't it amazing how one picture or one song can send you speeding down memory lane?!! As a kid, we also dressed up every time we rode the bus to Hartford to shop. Per my mother,it was expected that you wear your Sunday best to our state's capitol city. GFox Department Store was the place to go...long gone, as are the days of dressing up. But, alas, great memories!!! :-) Anne
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| katmom |
Posted - Jun 10 2017 : 08:20:18 AM
Oh Beth.... I so remember the little bottles oh 'Evening in Paris' but by the time I saved enough pennies... it was .25cents a bottle... lol!
Evening in Paris and the dime store hankies... that were stiff as card board (untill mother washed them 1/2 dozen times.).
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| Beth Jones |
Posted - Jun 10 2017 : 06:11:41 AM
In Montgomery, Alabama, we had a Kress. Dont think it had a "g" in it! We went twice a year..Christmas and Easter!! It had a wonderful lunch counter that served the best chicken and dressing!! It was so good!! The whole family would pile up in the "49" black ford and make the hour trip to the big city. My grandmother and two aunts lived with us and my grandmother would always get peanut brittle with hand grated coconut in it. It was so buttery and good!!! I would save my pennies and buy a 19 cent bottle of "Evening in Paris" perfume. I think I loved the cobalt blue bottle more than the actual perfume! I can still hear the old fat wood hard pine floors of the store creak under my feet! No telling how old that lumber was. Those days were wrapped in gossimer memories!! How sweet!!
You can never be too kind!
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| katmom |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 4:36:55 PM
I know,,, now it all of the family is in the car at the same time as they drive thru.. the drive thru,, that is called 'family time'..
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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| HealingTouch |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 12:35:37 PM
Grace, ours closed in the early 80's. Really sad that they all closed. Now all the kids get to go through the drive throughs, get their food thrown in the window and eat while the mother's are driving through the traffic trying to avoid all the maniacs driving while texting, As the kids drop french fries and fight with their siblings! Some bonding time! Give me the old days!
Winnie, I loved those horses too. Actually my kids loved them for awhile until they took them away!
Be Blessed and Be a Blessing,
Darlene
Sister 1922
October 2016 Farmgirl of the month
John 11: 35 Jesus wept.
When Satan's knocking at your door, just say "Jesus will you get that for me?"
When it gets to hard to stand, Kneel!
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 06:14:24 AM
I just love this vintage advertisement from the 1950s! Woolworth's was a big deal in our downtown but it did not have a cafe inside. Our cafe was up the soda fountain up street at Timberlake Drug store in the back. It was small but they had a brisk business during business hours which was the basic 8:30am-5pm. I remember that they made some fantastic rooter floats! But my favorite thing about Woolworth's was the mechanical horse in the front of the store. For 10 cents, it gave you a great ride in a real western saddle and reins. I was obsessed with that horse and earning a ride by doing my chores! I was horse crazy from about age 5 to present!! LOL!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015 |
| Denise Ann |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 04:30:16 AM
When I was little we would meet my grandmother in Minneapolis and eat lunch at woolworths! What fun!. There was a pharmacy in the Medical Arts building and when we would go to the doctor we got to have ice cream or lunch there, it took the sting out of getting a penicillin shot!
Denise Ann |
| katmom |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 10:11:43 PM
Darlene,,, we had a JJ Newberry in our town of Thousand Oaks,,, but it closed down by the end of the 1970's.. luv'd their breakfast specials... I even bought my 1st set of Melmac dishes (to use in our trailer)... great memories.
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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| HealingTouch |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 7:34:12 PM
We always went to Newberry's after I took the kiddos to the pediatrician. To eat there always made it a sweet ending!
Be Blessed and Be a Blessing,
Darlene
Sister 1922
October 2016 Farmgirl of the month
John 11: 35 Jesus wept.
When Satan's knocking at your door, just say "Jesus will you get that for me?"
When it gets to hard to stand, Kneel!
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| quiltee |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 2:51:12 PM
We ate at the counter at Kresge's. Love ice cream sodas. LOL!
Farmgirl hugs,
Farmgirl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month April 2017
Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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| buzzn bee |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 10:20:22 AM
This picture is hysterical! Makes me thing of the Woolworth store we had downtown when I was a little girl (You know, just a few short years ago.) LOL! Don't I wish. LOL! My grandmother always wore dresses like this and also her little white gloves. I always thought she was beautiful! She always would look so grand when she dressed up, but come morning on the farm she traded her little white gloves for her calico print cobbler apron and rolled out some homemade biscuits with homemade brown sugar syrup, Soooooo Gooood! She would have to make granddad his bowl of sausge gravy. But me, I loved her syrup!
Have a great day Grace!
Deborah Horn
Buzzn Bee |
| janamarieje |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 09:29:38 AM
Grace, you are too cute!
Jana
#7110
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All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 07:10:58 AM
Grace, bought back memories of eating at Woolworths in Dallas in the late 1950s. Always dressed in our Sunday go to meeting clothes to ride the bus into Dallas. Haven't been to downtown Dallas in decades but back then it was magical to a country girl.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| sargesproudwife |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 07:05:54 AM
Love it!
Christine, Sister #7295
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