Did you have a Jubilee City store in your town? Or maybe a Murphys or Woolworths? If so, please share any memories you have. At the bottom of this article I have links to some websites about another site that has info about Jubilee City, which played a huge part in my childhood memories. I couldn't find much online, though, so I had to write this from memory. Someone help jog my memory!
Here's what I remember:
1. Walking into the store and having the heavenly smell of their hot and freshly made caramel corn permeate my senses, making my mouth water. Almost as if hynotised, I'd HAVE to get some - or perhaps the equally fresh cheese popcorn or maybe just regular.Choices, choices!
2. The turtles they sold until salmonella became an issue with parents.
3. The best caramel apples in town. When they appeared in late September, it was a happy day for me.
4. Buying my first Beatles Record there.
5. No security alarms or major worries about shoplifters.
6. Paperback books on sale with the covers off of them. They don't seem to do that in stores anymore. I guess it is illegal.
Okay, your turn...!
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She would often buy me barbies there...lol and candy. :-)
I would go with the maid when she had to get specific things for my parents. Sometimes, if I had thirty cents saved up I would buy a package of handkerchiefs and a skein of embroidery floss and I would embroider my father's initials in the corner.
Boiled peanuts--- our Woolworths had boiled peanuts to go with the caramel corn.
Woolworths is still there, but it is empty, cobwebs in the empty window display area.
The first discount department store I remember was called Arlan's, but I can't remember when it opened. Before we had Wal-Mart or Target or K-Mart in Michigan, we had Meijer's Thrifty Acres -- supermarket and discount store combined (the first one opened in 1962). Meijer's is still going strong, but it is still regional (Michgan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky). They dropped the "Thrifty Acres" part of the name at some point.
The only discount store I remember in Australia is Target -- and they were always in malls. There were always supermarkets in malls too.
God Blessings
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