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Rob
Sears and Woolworth.
In my neck of the woods, Woolworth transitioned from retail clothing on
the first floor and grocery merchandise
on the basement to tourist bric-a-brac
items in it's last years before closing for
good.
The store offered real baby chicks &
rabbits in assorted colors around Easter. Also baby turtles, goldfish, canaries and parakeets.
The sound of brass cash registers, birds
chirping and aroma of fresh popcorn
and cotton candy, I still can recall.
My grandmother had several bamboo
cages with the pretty glass containers
which she would fill with Hartz bird
seed.
The smell of birds and newspaper on
the bottom of the cages. Whoowee!
Sears provided the Levis "shrink-to-fit"
blue jeans made in the U.S.
My jeans were super long at the bottom
and big at the waist.
Levi recommended 2 or 3 inches,
my folks would add a couple of more inches because I was growing "faster than a speeding bullet"!
I remember cars having running boards.
My uncle was the only one that allowed
me to climb on them when he was pulling
into the driveway.
The reason I recall cars with running
boards from an earlier era was because
nobody in the neighborhood could
afford new ones except for the rich
folks that lived across the railroad tracks.
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