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[gamalyer4_9]

 

I found this bag in my house in a safe box I read the History I don’t now how much for sale

[68barbie]

@maxine*j Did you go to the Woolworth's at Fountain Square when you visited Indy? I remember that location best as a child followed by Eastgate, which was open until the late 80s.

-C

[maxine*j]

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@68barbie wrote:

@maxine*j Did you go to the Woolworth's at Fountain Square when you visited Indy? I remember that location best as a child followed by Eastgate, which was open until the late 80s.

-C

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@68barbie 

I honestly cannot remember.  I thought there was a Murphy's at Fountain Square, though.

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[68barbie]

@maxine*j You are correct- G.C. Murphy. 🙂  I have fond memories of shopping downtown as well. Before my mother passed I would take her downtown and she would still be able to point out where the big department stores were "back in the day."

-C

[maxine*j]

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@68barbie wrote:

@maxine*j You are correct- G.C. Murphy. 🙂  I have fond memories of shopping downtown as well. Before my mother passed I would take her downtown and she would still be able to point out where the big department stores were "back in the day."

-C

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@68barbie 

Oh, yeah.   L.S. Ayres, Wm H. Block, H.P. Wasson, L, Strauss.  All those wonderful department stores all gone now.  Every once in awhile, we'd get up the courage to venture into Ayres or Block's, if they were running sales, but we never went into Wasson's or Strauss which were far too rich for our blood.

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[traditonalproducts]

Too funny

[ckimodog]

@inhawaii

As a kid, I remember the Woolworth's that was in the  Fort Street Mall,  The picture is a bit before my time. 😜

[12345jamesstamps]

One man's trash is another man's...trash.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

@gamalyer4_9 

Unfortunately, just because something was in a safe box, doesn't mean it's actually worth anything.

[doug_5857]

Whats the date on the sales receipt? the purchase was for$5.25 and they paid with a $50.00 bill. big money back then.

[1786davycrockett]

In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a Neisner's in downtown St. Paul.  In one corner of the store was a huge section filled with paperback book spinners.  Many's the hour I would spend in that department as a kid, twirling the spinners, and admiring the colorful covers on the paperbacks.  I probably spent lots of my hard-earned dimes and quarters, purchasing 25 cent and 35 cent paperbacks in that store.

And then, one day, the bottom fell out of my life -- it was 1961, and I was just about to purchase a copy of the Bantam Books paperback "NIGHTMARES AND GEEZENSTACKS" by Fredric Brown, when I noticed the price -- 40 cents.  Inflation had finally arrived on the bookshelves.

In no time whatsoever, comic books jumped from 10 cents to 12 cents, and  a bottle of  Coke from the cooler at the filling station jumped from a nickel to a dime.  My twenty-five cents a week allowance just didn't go very far anymore.

It was indeed, In the words of Ernest Hemingway, "the end of something."

And the following year -- I began to shave.  

I blame Neisner's for up-ending my childhood delusions.

[moondogblues]

I love Fredric Brown, though I've never heard of that book.  Might have to find it.  I grew up reading sci fi horror and fantasy.  Still do, and spend most Sundays watching incredibly horrible B movies on COMET.  Today was pretty good.  Spiders 1 thru 3.  Pink Champagne and caviar helped.  Sunday brunch!