Also Manchester's. Both in Madison, WI.

Disappeared.

In San Francisco or City of Paris

Two department stores that closed about 50 or 60 years ago

When it was still a good department store...in my case in the 60's ad 70's!

Fancier stuff sometimes came from Gimbels or Macy's.

There was another store, Interstate, where we went as well. It’s not around now either.

The one we went to doesn't exist anymore, but it moved to a mall location, so there still is a JC Penney store there.

lived a few blocks away so I was spoiled by them and my unmarried Uncle.

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and Easter outfits. Both closed for many years.

when we were kids Deb . We could see the fireworks at Kennywood from my Grandparents’ back yard. Sometimes burning paper from the fireworks would fly across the river and land in the yard!

Kennywood would put the fireworks cansisters on a barge in the Mongoahalia River. So you had the misfortune of getting that paper crap in your yard. PS I loved that Cox's had the bridal department on the top floor. with a window showing the dresses.

Green Bay and Sheboygan, Wisconsin (and elsewhere). We used to go "down by Prange's"

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so cool eating out.

"A little of everything"—that was the motto of Duckwall's, the Kansas-born five and dime store that for more
than one hundred years has offered its customers good products and good service.

Also G. C. Murphy’s in West Newton. We called that store the 5 and 10.

Grandma always took us to Gimbels. It was her favorite shopping day.

When I was a kid the only one was in downtown Allentown. But mostly we got clothes at Robert Hall or Sears.

We'd look at dresses & I'd show her what I liked & then we'd go to the JCPenney sewing department & I'd pick out fabric & buttons & trim. My mother could sew anything. You should have seen the Barbie clothes she made. Little suits with notched collars, gowns, sports wear, pajamas, dresses. I kept them in this box I covered & lined with wrapping paper. I sold them at a yard sale when I was in my 20s. I wasn't sure I wanted to get rid of them so I priced them high & they were one of the first things to sell. She didn't even offer me less; she bought them all & said, "My girls are going to love these."

I like to think somewhere some girl still has them.

made my Barbie everyday wear. but not her gowns. May the memories of your mother be a blessing to you.

They had quality product, too. Not like today’s disposable clothes you wash once and it falls apart!

very much, Ziggysmom.

I remember walking hand in hand up the street with my mother to go shopping there.
Sometimes we would go to Sears. Sometimes she might sew us clothes.

They were right down the street from each other.

are any of them still around? I have no clue. I can remember a couple of Easter outfits but not where they came from.

A fore runner to K-Mart in Moline, IL

Tikki

...memory of my parents, as an eidetic memory of my mother, hard to come by, popped into my head in connection with this recollection.