Adriatic posted:I was thinking about the lowered counter extentions that Saunder's had so smaller kids could sit on the stools and reach a straw.
My Dad worked for Karr's making soda when they needed some help on& off since he was a kid. I knew a granddaughter or niece from school too.
I like Cold Duck better than Vernors
.... Canada Dry, aye?
Even Faygo's
... but why when there's Redpop
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I mostly just went to a shop somewhere on Jefferson Downriver for the window display at Christmas. I recall going to Downtown Hudson's only once and a store with wood escalator steps that day...? The kids and wives didn't go into the city much and after 67 not at all. I think Tiger games with Mark Fidritch marks a turning point in time in my memory, with activity there ebing and flowing, but ultimately growing long term,.
I didn't really need to shop for trains, they just appeared. Sears at Dix & Southfield hwy near it's beginning & I-75, had hobby grade old stock too. I once found a 520 hiding in the back of a cloth storage drawer next to a trains drawer in 73-74. ( That Sears has earned a profit more consistantly per day open than any other Sears in the counrty. The original architecture of the mall styling and overall enclosed walkway concept; was award winning with many articles world wide in 56-58 but I don't know when it was finished. And if not then, by the 70s, that intersection busier in a 24hr period than any in the state for decades (Dunkin Donuts research, DOT info). To sit there for a light and not see another car is rare even at 4:00 am on a Holiday. ( I made the donuts
My Grandpa lived in Allen Park and we know that Sears... the farmer jack next door was bulldozed. Gramp would walk there across 4 lanes of southfield even at 98 years old!
Anyway, shocking on that 520... i didnt know they had trains! Would have been there alot!
After 68, never went downtown again after that trip to canera and trains. I recall one Tiger game in about '68. We never went back... watched 'the bird' on TV!
I worked at Joes Hobby Shop in the '80s during college summers, but it was on the Detroit/dearborn property line on Wyoming.
