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Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
hawks24
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Date: February 22, 2013 02:31PM
Anyone remember J & R on Pulaski, just south of 63rd?
Floors creeked as you walked around. It is still there. Do I dare go in?
Floors creeked as you walked around. It is still there. Do I dare go in?
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
Jim R.
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Date: February 23, 2013 11:03AM
hawks24...It's still open and I go there. Check out page two of this thread.
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
bob1060
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Date: February 27, 2013 09:43AM
I used to go to J&R all the time with my grandmother! Fun toy shopping adventures.
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: December 27, 2015 12:47AM
I remember back in the early 50's when I was around seven and I went to the dime store on 51st and Damen to buy a plastic Baby Jesus for my Moms manger. I paid .10 cents. 30 years later we found out that I actually had two Baby Jesus's stuck together. I would call that a two for one sale. LOL
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
Dunning1
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Date: December 28, 2015 02:57PM
It's kind of interesting talking about these old five and dime stores, but when reading a biography of Sam Walton, that's where he started off...running a Ben Franklin Five and Ten store down in Arkansas. The whole Walmart empire started from that five and dime store.
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: December 30, 2015 04:42PM
[b]The one on 51st east of Damen was a Ben Franklin store. On 47th & Ashland block there were three, Kreskie that became K- Mart, Woolworth and Niesners. all on the east side of Ashland & 47th.Excuse my spelling.There was also 0ne at 50th & Ashland on the west side of the street. It had stairs going to a second floor also. These stores all had signs above with gold letters and a red back[/b]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2016 09:21PM by Richard Stachowski.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2016 09:21PM by Richard Stachowski.
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: December 31, 2015 12:45AM
Rich, you have a great memory.
Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: January 14, 2016 12:20AM
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Re: Dime stores
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: January 25, 2016 01:11AM
It's funny that not all the stuff in dime stores were 10 cents, however, in todays Dollar Stores everything is a dollar except for greeting cards they are 2 for a dollar. Interesting..........
