Days Gone By

[Mary Stetler]

When I was a kid we had a great Royal Typewriter. My kids ruined it playing with it so it went down the road. I picked up andold Smith Corona at a thrift shop a few years back to keep my writing from big brother, but never used it. I just dragged it down and typed The Quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. I must say, it is a bit harder to type on than a laptop and now I have to find a source for white out and carbon paper.

 

[Marie Mallory]

One of my first jobs was in Grants.

Mary downtown Atlanta Ga. had all 3 of those 5 and 10 stores.

 

[Marie Mallory]

When I was a kid we had a great Royal Typewriter. My kids ruined it playing with it so it went down the road. I picked up andold Smith Corona at a thrift shop a few years back to keep my writing from big brother, but never used it. I just dragged it down and typed The Quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. I must say, it is a bit harder to type on than a laptop and now I have to find a source for white out and carbon paper.

Mary , I think my favorite comedian had one of those old typewriter's, he wrote all his books on it.

 

[CAS]

Stories, videos, photos, there are a lot of fading mementos from within the living memories of members. You can post them here unless you want a separate thread for a longer discussion of a specific case.

In the US and Eastern Canada we had a large retail, mostly grocery, chain known simply as "A&P" in its latter days. It eventually became the juggernaut of the grocery market. In some ways it was the Walmart of its day without the predatory outsourcing, though volume buying helped it edge smaller chains and independent stores out of many communities.

What REALLY Happened to A&P? (A&P History)

Oh I remember the A&P! My parents used to buy bags of coffee beans in the aisle, and the cashier would grind the beans at the checkout counter.
Also Grand Union- which I've heard belongs to a different company now.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

My first "real" job was bagging at the A&P, and my first guitar job was playing in a Classical Piano and Guitar duo in a Hotel lobby In Chicago.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Back when I lived in Idaho, I was just outside of the small town of Bonners Ferry, which was named after the first person to operate a ferry across the Kootenai River, which is right next to the town. In spring, the town often flooded , and I remember seeing it that way when I was a really young girl and went with my folks into Bonners (we lived just south of there, in Sandpoint, when I was growing up, but my folks still had property near Bonners). Later, they put in a dam that stopped the flooding in the spring runoff.

These pictures show the town in the late 1800’s, and you can see that there is no bridge across the river, and not even a ferry at that point in time. On the north side of the river, there is nothing except trees and mountains.
The second one is the town as it looks now.