[straycat]

That's something I forgot about, the Mad magazines. I wonder what happened to my collection, anyway long gone. It was a special occasion to eat at the snack bar.

[NEW64OWNER]

Originally Posted by stags

Used to love going through Woolworth, and WT Grant, back then. All my model cars, and a Visible V-8 came from the Woolworth. A lot of pet turtles & chameleons too. My younger brother preferred critters to cars. Remember having lunch and ice cream at the counter as well. Those pictures bring back good memories.

And they sold the baby aligators also

[NEW64OWNER]

Originally Posted by GTOnly70

Here is the book department. Notice the rack on the far left - full of Mad books. I used to love Mad - still have all my old books and magazines...

Spy vs spy and then spy vs spy vs spy. Funny stuff

[bkmont]

Those were the days...My brother and I are 13 months apart. We would always get the same presents from our granny for Christmas. Two Hot Wheel Track sets or two of the old AFX Electric Slot race tracks. We would have tracks laid out all over the dining room floor. Good times.

[stags]

Originally Posted by tigergto

The one thing I remember best about our local Woolworths was the lucnh counter that served Banana Splits. Every now anf then they would have balloons hanging with a small piece of paper inside. Those papers contained the numbers 1-39 cents the max for a Banana Split. You would pick a ballon and pay whatever was on the paper. Most of the time it was 39 cents. Lol.

Forgot about the balloons, and the baby alligators NEW64OWNER brought up, but ya had those as well. The strip center in my old town is still there and I went online to see if I could find a shot of the Woolworth's but only found this one of the flagship department store - Lit Brothers. Old school yard rhyme: "get your ba**s at Robert Hall, get your t**ts at Lits.
4 dr. Pontiac (71-72?) in the lot.

[Bob Hall]

Originally Posted by stags

Old school yard rhyme: "get your ba**s at Robert Hall, get your t**ts at Lits.

4 dr. Pontiac (71-72?) in the lot.

Thank you for digging up that memory I've suppressed about some school yard teasing.



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[455firebird1969]

I lived in Joppatowne MD during the early 60's thru mid 70's. Joppatowne was developed to be a self contained community that included shopping, several schools, parks, churches and a lot of houses & apartments. At the entrance to Joppatowne from rt. 40 there is a shopping center that had a similar store. There was an A&P grocery store, a barber shop, a bank, a Ben Franklin store and a movie cinema in the same shopping center.

I can't remember if it was a Woolworth's store? I googled-up a picture of the soda counter in the back of a "Woolworth's store from the 60's", and it looks like the one I remember. Between all of the stores there, they had more toys than I ever dreamed of. I walked to these stores many times alone or with a sibling or friend with mearly a couple of coins in my pocket, because back then a penny was worth something, and a quarter was a small fortune.

At the barber shop you would receive a wooden nickel after your haircut, supposedly for not moving around too much. The wooden nickel could be turned in at the soda counter in the back of the drugstore for a free chocholate coke, which as a big deal back then!

During the same timeframe I recieved many matchbox cars from the mail-in programs on cereal boxes. All you had to do was send in three proof-of-purchase seals, and then wait several weeks before it arrived in the mail. Back then three weeks seemed like forever to wait for a new toy.

We had the annual carnival and an Independence Day parade & fireworks every summer and ice cream trucks daily among other memories. Joppatowne was a really cool place to grow up.

[455firebird1969]

See cereal box attachments below.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 455firebird1969

During the same timeframe I recieved many matchbox cars from the mail-in programs on cereal boxes. All you had to do was send in three proof-of-purchase seals, and then wait several weeks before it arrived in the mail. Back then three weeks seemed like forever to wait for a new toy.

"Wait 90 days for shipping and handling" if I remember correctly.



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[madeuce50]

What a blast from the past!! We had a Woolworth in town with a lunch counter. Many of my plastic models came from there along with the first of my N scale model trains. One of the drug stores in town had the big wooden Matchbox display with the cars underneath in the boxes. Wish I'd kept more of them.......

[unruhjonny]

this is a great thread.

I was born much too late to recall any of this, but when I was young Woolco, the Bay, Sears, and Kmart (still) had very similar looking toy departments to that first picture...
I used to love going into some of those stores with my grandparents - all but Sears always had a little resturaunt inside - In one of the bigger malls here the Bay's resturaunt was on the second floor, and overlooked the centre of the mall with a large water fountain...
Unfortunately this is all of times bygone...
Aside from Walmart, the big box stores seem to be dying off, and have for the past twenty plus years offering less and less.

Sears and the bay killed off their toy, reading, and "record" departments ages ago...

I think as a society we've really lost out on the simplicity of times bygone.

[Tim Younker]

I was an Air Force brat growing up in the 1960's. Remember my dad taking my brother and I to the PX once a month to pick out our own Match Box cars. In the late 60's we chose Hot Wheels over Match Box. Still have a few of them. Tonka trucks were given to us for Birthday's and Christmas. Still have those also.

[stags]

Originally Posted by Bob Hall

Thank you for digging up that memory I've suppressed about some school yard teasing.



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Shoot!! Sorry Bob. Kids can be cruel.

[Bob Hall]

Originally Posted by stags

Shoot!! Sorry Bob. Kids can be cruel.

It's ok, I chuckle now. The interesting thing was by the time I was in school, there were no more Robert Hall stores in existence, but the saying and variants of it lived on years after.