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Default Woolworth on 5th Avenue

On 8/11/2018 1:15 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 11 Aug 2018 09:57:36a, graham told us...
>
>> On 2018-08-11 9:53 AM, Janet wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>> On 8/10/2018 7:42 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On 8/10/2018 5:35 PM,
wrote:
>>>>>>> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 4:22:56 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In the late 1970's I used to take my lunch break at a small
>>>>>>>> Woolworth's store in a shopping mall in Memphis.Â* IIRC they
>>>>>>>> had fish & chips on Friday.Â* I think I got a burger and
>>>>>>>> fries there a couple of times, too, but seems to me there
>>>>>>>> were crinkle cut fries.Â* I dunno, I was a long time ago.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When I finished eating I'd peruse the store for fun little
>>>>>>>> items like cheap costume jewelry.Â* I still have a macrame
>>>>>>>> neckace with sliced sea shell dangles that I picked up for
>>>>>>>> 50 cents.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
https://s22.postimg.cc/z1aiqsb01/shells.jpg
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the memories, Joan!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey, I like that necklace!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same here, which is why I kept it all these years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Â*Yeah, I miss the 5 and dime stores and the
>>>>>>> plate lunches Woolworth served were great, at least to me
>>>>>>> they were.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Woolworth's was a fun place to shop and didn't cost a fortune
>>>>>> to buy anything.Â* The food was pretty good, too, considering
>>>>>> it was a lunch counter in a department store.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I hated it when the Woolworth's here closed. Who could
>>>>> ever forget "Evening in Paris" perfume, not that I bought it.
>>>>> LOL
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheri
>>>>
>>>> I'd forgotten about "Evening in Paris"! I think I bought a
>>>> bottle of "Tabu" at Woolworth's once upon a time...
>>>
>>> I bought Woolworth's "Evening in Paris" for my mother's
>>> Christmas
>>> present when I was about 10 or 11. A sophisticated step forward
>>> from the Woolworth's packets of six floral scented bath cubes
>>> I'd given her in previous years.
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>>

>> When I was 3 or 4 years old, I bought my mother a box with what I
>> thought was a fancy soap and talc for xmas. When she died at 93 it
>> was still in her things.
>>

>
> It must have had strong memories for her and that you gave it to her.
>
> I have two apothcary jars filled with various hard-milled imported
> soaps. I don't use them, just look at them and occasionally open the
> jars and smell them. Odd, huh? :-)
>

Not really. Memories are strongly associated with scents.

Jill