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Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a great week. Today's Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is taking us on a trip down memory lane. We are talking about stores or other physical places we wish still existed.
Considering that so many stores of my childhood are just distant memories these days, that could be a long list (problem with being over half a century old).
When I was a kid, we had a local mall in our city called Fairfield Mall. Its anchor stores were Two Guys (closed 1982) and Caldor (closed 1999). After Two Guys closed, Bradlees moved in. They closed all their stores by 2001. Fairfield Mall closed soon afterwards. I have so many memories there:
- Taking the Pepsi Challenge in the food court. Still a Pepsi girl.
- Sitting at the Koffee Kup counter having tea and a donut with my uncle, who always ordered a coffee and a cruller.
- Playing video games and pinball at the Just Fan arcade.
- Getting soft serve at the in-mall restaurant.
- Going each week to choose the Top 40 singles I didn't own from Caldor.
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I wrote about Woolworths, too, Cheryl. It was such a great store. I bought my first album on cassette there. Whenever I think of Woolworths I think of Christmas.
That field of wildflowers sounds gorgeous!
Mall culture was never HUGE to me -- my local mall was dying when I was a kid, and considered dangerous in the evening -- but I do remember going to two healthier malls in another city on a fairly regular basis (like, 1-2 times a month) and enjoying seeing all the different people.
I'd forgotten about Woolworth's, although I do remember helping my grandmother put stamps on a card as a kid. Hahaha. Also, I don't drink soda, and even when I did, I never cared for colas. It was root beer or Shasta orange for me. However, I was out with my future husband and a couple of friends and stumbled across them doing the Pepsi challenge. They were all Pepsi drinkers and yet, I was the only one who chose right.
Here is my post.
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