Fantastic ride down Memory Lane....I am frequently accused of living in the past, but
I like it there, and I ain't leavin' it! I have no photos of Kaufman's, where an aunt
worked, and Stewart's where my mother worked (she later worked at a Woolworth's
out in the suburbs), the large department stores on 4th Street, once the major
Louisville, Kentucky shopping area. There must be some, in archives there. Those two
and the Sears store several blocks from 4th on Broadway were the targets for kids
who wanted to see toylands and trains. Woolworth's was the largest dime store with
a basement toy department and Marx trains. Grant's and Kresge's never seemed to
have as much, nor did, even the dime store sized Montgomery-Wards that sat among
them along that strip. Fischer's Hobby Shop was visited, but infrequently, as they did not carry Marx. They were my source for Hudson Miniatures antique car kits. They were up a steep stairs on an upper floor of a building on a side street off 4th. Sutcliffe's, a sporting goods store, turned their mezzanine into a train shop during
the holidays, and that is where I saw the less common Marx. One thing about all
of today's technology.....if then, all the camera phones and video cameras would have
captured all of this.
