Woolworth

[Brucek]

Re: Woolworth

Downtown Waterbury Connecticut when I grew up had Woolworths almost side by side to WT Grant and across East Main Street, SS Kresge. Each was known as a 'five & dime'. I remember most a comment my mom made about shopping in Woolworths, crap I have to buy another harness to keep this little rascal under control. I was a terror. She never remembered to bring one from home, we had quite a collection.

[jerrym3]

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Anybody remember the iceman and/or the guy that came around to sharpen knives, tools, whatever?

[DudleyM]

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I was a baby when the iceman came to our apartment. However, my husband's family had a cottage in Sarnia Canada and an icebox with iceman delivering what was needed.

We also had the sharpener guy. And, how about the coffee man, the bakery products truck, the produce trucks during the summer?

[Ski]

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My mom had an ice box when I was really young but I do remember it and the milk man delivering milk a couple times a week. Glass bottles washed and returned each time. I guess it was real recycling.

[islandtime]

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... and the milk man delivering milk a couple times a week. Glass bottles washed and returned each time. I guess it was real recycling.

We still had our milk delivered in glass bottles until last year when Yoder Diary discontinued home delivery...and then went out of business
Life goes on...

[JAB02LHS]

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I was a baby when the iceman came to our apartment. However, my husband's family had a cottage in Sarnia Canada and an icebox with iceman delivering what was needed.
I remember going with my Dad to a farm in Canada
to buy ice for my uncles ice box that he had at his summer fishing cabin.
The ice was cut from the lake during the winter and buried under sawdust in the barn all summer
and people would drive up and the farmer would cut a chunk from a large block of ice.
We also had the sharpener guy. And, how about the coffee man, the bakery products truck, the produce trucks during the summer?
We also had a guy that came around Sunday morhings selling Hot Waffles
out of an old milk truck with a window cut in the side of it.
and don't forget the 'Paper Rex' Man

[jerrym3]

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How about cold water flats?

Our apartment was on the third floor. Dad had to lug a few gallon oil container up from the basement for the oil stove in the master bedroom.

On really cold winter nights, mom would warm up a brick, wrap it in a towel, and place it under the covers down by my feet.

I was born in 1943. We didn't have a house with central heating until 1962.

Central air? Any A/C?

Fugedaboudit.

[LuvOurBird]

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Does anyone remember the Fuller Brush Man or the Jewel T trucks. My mom bought a shadow box and every week the Jewel T guy would come by and collect $2.00 until it was paid off.

[Fordguy]

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I remember the Fuller Brush guy here in the Detroit area. We also had vacuum salesmen for Kirby vacuums wander through the neighborhoods some 30 years ago. Not anymore . . .

[DudleyM]

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And, of course, the Encyclopedia Brittanica that everyone needed to ensure their kids had the best start in life!

[Ediron]

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Before Women's Lib

[Peterfurlan]

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Before Women's Lib

Today the last one would go over like a lead balloon. I do think in the fifties
your wife would have been thrilled with a mix master. Prior to that they were
mixing and beating with a spoon. Need some input from the ladies on this one.

[DudleyM]

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There was a hand crank egg beather.

[Rondor]

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I remember well the Jewel T and fuller BRUSH guys but also the bread man Omar Bakeries, and the Cookks coffee guy. And the Mom and pop grocery on the coerner took orders on the phone and delivered. You could set your clock ny theese guys arrival time.

[Rondor]

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Looking back it seems like the demise of the dime stores was rhe end of downtown as we knew it. Even tho they showed up at the suburban shopping centers they weren't the same