Shops I miss from years ago

[Widow of Vietnam Vet]

Yeah- I remember my mother would take me to Kresge's and Woolworth when I was very little, to do Christmas shopping.
Kresge's had a wonderful food bar with a full upstairs kitchen and I would always get turkey, stuffing, great gravy, string beans and a little dip of cranberry sauce. My mother would only get dessert and it was a homemade apple turnover with a fabulous creamy sweet sauce.

I didn't think I would like it, but tried it and I can still recall how delicious it was and it is something I could never quite duplicate myself.

Ten years later Kresge's started selling hoagies, 3 for 1.00 and they were not very large but highly tasteful!

Gee, a quarter used to get me an Archie Comic, and quite a few candy bars. Or see a movie in a movie theatre.

 

[JeeperDon]

The dimestores of my childhood(also called five-and-dimes, ten cent stores) such as Woolworths, Murphys, Grants, McCrorys.

With a quarter in hand, the sky was the limit.

... also S.S.Kresge's, at least in Detroit, my home town.

 

[jujube]

... also S.S.Kresge's, at least in Detroit, my home town.

Kresges.....I forgot Kresges. We had one doentown.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I miss a lot of things from years ago. I’m assuming many people are these days.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Wimpy - we have one of them in Fraserburgh - opposite the bus station. I've never been in one.

Rumbelows.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I miss Kmart. I loved that store. Around Xmas, they had the "Blue Light" specials- super sales on stuff. I remember being in the aisle of a Blue Light special. I got mobbed by people rushing to get a deal. For some strange reason, Kmart felt homier than Walmart. Walmart seems impersonal and ultra business like. I miss Kmart.

 

[Paladin1950]

Kmart
Korvette's (New York City)
Abraham & Strauss (Brooklyn)
Gimbels- (Manhattan)
Robert Hall Clothes (Rochester, NY)
Fanny Farmer ( candy stores)
W.T. Grants (department store)
Sears/ Sears, Roebuck and Company (department store)
Montgomery Ward (department store)