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[Mrs-M]

They really do have such a way of taking one back don't they.

[leslieann]

Thanks for the link to the photos, Mrs. M. I sent it off to my children, who will recognize some of the items, and to my step mom, who will recognize more of them!

[Mrs-M]

You are very welcome, Leslieann. I loved the mood ring (remember those)?, and the plastic juice-jug/pitcher with the thumb-button on the lid! And many, many others...

[Mrs-M]

Now here's a picture in keeping with the whole theme of this thread!



Leftovers from the baby-days in our house! The Curity brand dates to 1992 (first born). I unearthed them from the bowels of the basement (pardon the pun) over this past Christmas holiday season. (Got to be one or two older SL moms here who remember them)...

[sunnyjoe]

I think Kathy in WI mentioned this in passing earlier in the tread but do you remember the candy/nut counter at stores like Sears? They roasted the nuts on-site and it always smelled so good. I can remember how the aroma hit you just as the escalator reached the second floor. They'd scoop out your selection with a metal scoop into a paper bag and then weigh it. My dad always liked to buy (gummy) orange slices.

Anyone here grow up in Pasadena and remember Gene Burtons?

[thinkgreen]

Oh fun! I remember blowing bubbles in milk. The straws were made of paper and would collapse after a minute or so. Good times.

[Sad Eyed Lady]

Oh fun! I remember blowing bubbles in milk. The straws were made of paper and would collapse after a minute or so. Good times.

Speaking of straws, I hope no one else has mentioned this and I missed it, but do you remember straws that flavored the milk as you drank it? The ones I remember were either chocolate or strawberry, made of paper, and as you sipped milk through them you had either strawberry or chocolate flavored milk!

[Sad Eyed Lady]

Mrs-M, loved the old photos of Woolsworth. I remember the lunch counter there too, and all the treasures that one store could hold for a child!

[Sad Eyed Lady]

Mrs-M, loved the old photos of Woolsworth. I remember the lunch counter there too, and all the treasures that one store could hold for a child!

Wow, I have just learned something from these old photos and posts- it was NOT Woolsworth as I said, but Woolworths! I have called it incorrectly all my life I think!

[Mrs-M]

Sunnyjoe. Our Sears outlet was really small, just the bare-bones basics, but gee-whiz anyway, I would have been into the nuts and candy every single time I stepped foot into the store! What a great bargaining tool when out shopping with the kids!

Thinkgreen. Oh, the paper straws are too much! LOL! I can't say I remember paper straws, but I do remember the ones that bent like an accordion.

Shalom. You guys are doing a great job stumping me today! I don't remember such straws. One thing I do see that's different (in the posted picture of the toy department) from the Woolworths store I remember when I was younger, is that the isles and displays are much lower than ours used to be. The shelving and isle displays in our old store would have easily been twice the height as the ones shown in the picture. I remember a man would bring a ladder out from the back and climb way up high to get things down for shoppers. I actually had the name, Woolworths, wrong too, no apostrophe.