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Age Yourself!

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  • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

    Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.

    Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.

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    The Pop Shoppe

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      Monkey Wards

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        Monkey Wards

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        @rainman oh yes!

        The Brad

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        • George KG George K

          @kluurs said in Age Yourself!:

          We probably went to the same Korvettes

          Nope. North Riverside.

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          @george-k I visited both Korvettes - but as I recall Elmhurst had the better classical collecdtion
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            #30

            A&P
            Wags
            Kinney Shoes
            Thom McAn
            Docktor Pet Store
            Fotomat

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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              A&P
              Wags
              Kinney Shoes
              Thom McAn
              Docktor Pet Store
              Fotomat

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              @jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015

              Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists

              Gimbels
              Two guys

              Hey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.

              And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.

              For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.

              New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.

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                Remember these ads?

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                • bachophileB bachophile

                  @jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015

                  Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists

                  Gimbels
                  Two guys

                  Hey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.

                  And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.

                  For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.

                  New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.

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                  @bachophile said in Age Yourself!:

                  @jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015

                  I know, one of the final stores to close was less than a mile from me.

                  But still, its heyday was decades ago.

                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                  • bachophileB bachophile

                    @jon-nyc man a & p went defunct in 2015

                    Let me take you back when nyc was a shopping paradise and no fucking tourists

                    Gimbels
                    Two guys

                    Hey I remember when the only sacks fifth Avenue in the country was the one on fifth Avenue and had elevator men announcing the floors and what was on each floor.

                    And right near by was lord and Taylor and bergdoff Goodman.

                    For cheaper things there was Alexander’s across the street from bloomies.

                    New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.

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                    @bachophile said in Age Yourself!:

                    New York that I grew up in before the tourists arrived.

                    Yeah right.

                    I once read a piece from the 1850s complaining that Greenwich Village will never be the same after the recent gentrification.

                    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                    -Cormac McCarthy

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                    • George KG George K

                      Remember these ads?

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                      Best of all a "Polaris Nuclear Sub" for $7.

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                      @george-k said in Age Yourself!:

                      Remember these ads?

                      Familiar

                      I have over 1,000 comic books from that era in boxes just a few feet from where I'm sitting.

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                      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                        Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.

                        Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.

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                        @taiwan_girl said in Age Yourself!:

                        Not really a store, but I remember listening to voice of America on short radio to practice my English.

                        Many times throughout the day, they would do the news in “special” English, which meant that it was read very slowly, and they used more simple words.

                        The VOA complex is just a couple miles up from my house. I drive by regularly. When growing up it was this huge array array of broadcast antennae, plus the diamond shaped WLW tower. The WLW tower still stands today and the VOA has been made into a museum.

                        http://www.voamuseum.org/about/bethany-relay-station-history/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                          Buster Brown Shoes.
                          Magnavox (and other stereo manufacturers)

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                            Montgomery Wards, BEST toy catalog, Sears, Miller's Outpost, maple coffee table with the glass grapes and the hideous orange sofa. Televisions with legs.

                            https://tentaclesandwich.blogspot.com

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