Carmine
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I took these photos the last time I was in our Sears store (Macomb Mall) because I knew it was not long for the world. The signs, escalators, etc. are in all my kid memories but the merchandise was much nicer!
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Same Thing around here, still the old escalators, inside door handles ceilings from around 1965. But the clock is ticking. They even used to have a giant fish tank in their now defunct delicatessen department in their early years. Notice the aluminum trim above the entrance. A few of the fancier ones are saved as landmarks though.
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Anchor Hocking made tableware called Jadeite (opaque green milk glass) among other kinds of glass tableware. Made in the 40's and up to 1975. I got turned onto it in 1999 and started buying some on eBay. Ebay was new and the glassware was cheap. Cheap no longer. Restaurant ware coffee cups I bought for $5-10 are now $50 and up. Restaurant ware was made thicker than the glassware for the house so it now commands premium prices. What cost me hundreds is now worth over a thousand. We use the Jadeite and some of my other Anchor Hocking Fire King glassware every night. There is also in my possession my mother's China and silver set from when she got married in 1953.
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From what I have been told and from what we can find out this below is the oldest operating Westinghouse escalator in the country. Where is it by chance? On board the USS Hornet circa 1952.
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Being able to afford to have only one parent working.
Carmine
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Yes, but look how much better society is now?
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MarPar
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Outside the door of Sears where Carmine took his photo above. Today and 1964 when Macomb Mall opened.
Malls ..came and went (in many cases) in my relatievely short lifetime.who'd a thought. Not a Detroit 'ruin ****" story .. capitalism (ala whats happening to Sears itself) is a cruel SOB sometimes no matter where you're at.
On the other hand, here's how I remember malls well into the 1980's when my kids were born. A magical place -- this is Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights MI. The central atrium, n 1980 and recently.. this one is still hangin' in there.
Many miles in one of these "standup" Devco'z. Wilson Dairy in the Motor City used to have a satellite dairy in Ann Arbor in the early '60s. More 36 hr. dayz back then that I care to even think about today, Jer
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Jer, the milkman???
I have enjoyed reading through the posts. I have many of the same memories.
The real department store is one of my fondest memories from my childhood. We had a 7 story downtown Lazarus which you could buy everything, had its own library and choir and a few restaurants.
I can remember riding up and down the exculators unattended, while my mother shopped. She would come and find me in the toy department when it was time to go.
This was also where the real Santa was at Christmas, anywhere else they were just Santa's helpers. It was absolutely magical during the holidays.
The real department store is one of my fondest memories from my childhood. We had a 7 story downtown Lazarus which you could buy everything, had its own library and choir and a few restaurants.
I can remember riding up and down the exculators unattended, while my mother shopped. She would come and find me in the toy department when it was time to go.
This was also where the real Santa was at Christmas, anywhere else they were just Santa's helpers. It was absolutely magical during the holidays.
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My grandma, god rest her soul, who would be about 105 now had her tonsils taken out when she was a little girl on the kitchen table at home. She said they did put down some newspaper before the procedure and Her memory was crystal cLear until the day she died at 101.
Yup, whole sale and door to door retail and kept me fed and paid tuition from '62 'til '67
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WOW!!!!
Ubiquitous tool in every office in America from the 1960's until the personal computing revolution "retired" them in the mid-late 1980's.
Ingenious mechanical design by the way ... WAY gone now. just like TV repair stores.
Ingenious mechanical design by the way ... WAY gone now. just like TV repair stores.
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How about Made in USA. Here are some of my basic kitchen appliances. Oster products from Milwaukee. The Osterizer has the chrome metal base and glass carafe for my margaritas. Silex juicer from Philadelphia. General Electric waffle maker from Bridgeport. My Toastmaster toasters I don't know where since they had several places in the 40s and 50s. I rotate them with Sunbeam toasters. I decided back in 1999 that any time I need something I would first check Ebay and look for American made. Then I would buy from someone in the Midwest where they have been devastated by factory closures. I have no issues with paying more for a well made American appliance but I suspect corporations don't want to make those kinds anymore. Here I am using some that are 70 years old and that just isn't good for the quarterly profit picture they are all chasing today.
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