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The Good Old Times
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LOL! I used to sit on the kitchen counter (the phone was in the kitchen) for like two and a half hours every Sunday, talking to my girlfriend while we both listened to the Top 40 countdown. Drove my mom NUTS.
All of them!
Kress, Woolworth's, Sears, Montgomery Ward
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Sears is still alive, barely. 5 stores are left so it might as well be gone. There is one about 100 miles from me. The company that took over Sears also had taken over Kmart which is gone in the mainland US. There are three Kmart stores left on some of the Pacific island territories like Guam.
I miss the Sears and Monkey Wards catalogs. The hours I spent browsing through their wonderful, slick pages, looking for the things I wished I could get...
Because they got their hides tanned if they didn't, that's why.
I have a funny story about renting videos. My ex husband and I had two favorite movies - The Final Countdown and The Wall (Pink Floyd). Every weekend, we went to the Hilltop Blockbuster near our house and rented those two movies. Many, many times, I can't even recall how many. One evening, we went in there and got those same two movies and took them up to the counter. The manager was ready and waiting for us. He hauled up a VCR in a carry case, set it on the counter and said, "Take this and these two movies and record them onto your own tapes. You're wearing my copies out!" No charge! He didn't charge us for the machine or the movies that weekend (he just wanted us to stop renting those tapes, LOL!), and we did indeed make a copy of each one and continued watching them every weekend. That was back before DVDs. It was just VHS tapes then.
Then there were the 5 & 10 cent stores back in the early 1970s.
There were so many little stores like that back then, and variety stores had a little of everything, sadly they don't exist anymlre
I got mine in 1977 and just had to retire it about 10 years ago, maybe less. I was waking up with a sore back from the "hammock" style sleeping. I have a memory foam now, but it's in the waterbed frame.
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"Mass quantities!" LOL!