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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 06 2017 : 9:11:51 PM
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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!!!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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sargesproudwife
True Blue Farmgirl
174 Posts
Christine Marie
NY
USA
174 Posts |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7112 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7112 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 07:10:58 AM
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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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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
Jana
Southern California
USA
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buzzn bee
True Blue Farmgirl
1061 Posts
Deborah
Muncie
Indiana
USA
1061 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 10:20:22 AM
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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
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7546 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
7546 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 2:51:12 PM
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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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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
3448 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 7:34:12 PM
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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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2017 : 10:11:43 PM
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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.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Denise Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
831 Posts
Denise
Shoreview
MN
USA
831 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 04:30:16 AM
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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!
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6663 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6663 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 06:14:24 AM
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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
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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
3448 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2017 : 12:35:37 PM
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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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
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Beth Jones
True Blue Farmgirl
3196 Posts
beth
tallassee
alabama
3196 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2017 : 06:11:41 AM
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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
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2017 : 08:20:18 AM
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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!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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1Anne
True Blue Farmgirl
99 Posts
Anne
Lebanon
CT
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2017 : 12:56:11 PM
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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
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2017 : 3:50:12 PM
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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.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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