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38. I have the fondest memories of those days

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 07:12 PM

Nov 2013

Born Brooklyn, New York in 1952. All the big department store were located on Fulton Street, known as downtown Brooklyn. My mother worked at A&S for 25 years, starting in the early 60's. Great discount on clothes for me as I entered my teenage years - yay! My dad piled me and my brother into the car to pick my mother up at work and to see the wonderful displays in all the windows at Christmas. Strings of lights were strung from one side of Fulton Street to the other and were especially beautiful if it was snowing. Got my first pair of ice skates on Fulton Street on a beautiful snowy night. I think it was 1966. Headed home and watched A Christmas Carol on our one and only black and white TV. Memories . . . . .

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The day after Thanksgiving 1944. We had gone to my grandmother's. [View all] Cleita Nov 2013 OP

Thanks for sharing your memories Cleita. I grew up in the livetohike Nov 2013 #1

You're welcome. Cleita Nov 2013 #2

I agree. And, as kids, we didn't get gobs & gobs of junk toys. We usually got a toy or two, and loudsue Nov 2013 #29

exactly. nt DesertFlower Nov 2013 #54

Same here...... llmart Nov 2013 #14

The sidewalks around the square... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2013 #43

Oh, yes, I sure do remember Higbees..... llmart Nov 2013 #61

Yep to all... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2013 #63

I love 'A Christmas Story' . . . aggiesal Nov 2013 #47

just you wait! NJCher Nov 2013 #57

Horne's Christmas windows were the best, and they had 19th century, costumed carollers Divernan Nov 2013 #26

Don't think you'll see that at WalMart or Target. n/t Cleita Nov 2013 #27

I was born Dec'44 mitchtv Nov 2013 #3

I didn't have a Christmas club but many family members did. Cleita Nov 2013 #5

i was born 10/41 in queens, ny. i remember those stores too. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #23

Our savings accounts paid 5% for the entire first part of my life. It was a standard rate for loudsue Nov 2013 #34

wouldn't it be nice to get 5 percent now? DesertFlower Nov 2013 #39

Born in April, '47 druidqueen Nov 2013 #62

Thanks for the memory. spartan61 Nov 2013 #4

I know we can't go back but I think we could take some of Cleita Nov 2013 #6

Me, too, Cleita. The greed and junk-fever is pretty appalling. loudsue Nov 2013 #35

one thing I find helpful is not watching ANY teevee. BlancheSplanchnik Nov 2013 #48

It was the same in Chicago. Quite often we would go downtown just to look at the window displays. world wide wally Nov 2013 #7

There isn't even any interest in doing something Cleita Nov 2013 #20

Ah, yes, I remember it well. nt No Vested Interest Nov 2013 #8

Day after Thanksgiving in my family... Archae Nov 2013 #9

Love it! Thanks for posting! KoKo Nov 2013 #13

Aww Archae! Thanks for these. Cleita Nov 2013 #19

I figured you'd like those. Archae Nov 2013 #30

Good memories. I have those, too. MineralMan Nov 2013 #10

Even in the '50s and early '60s the downtown stores The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #11

This is a great story. I can almost see Jimmy Stewart running down the street . . . Major Hogwash Nov 2013 #12

I agree. Every time I see something about a bank being fined for Frustratedlady Nov 2013 #16

Born 1943 here -- and I have some of the same memories. JDPriestly Nov 2013 #15

Many downtowns still actually have this. Mine does. It's nice. RBInMaine Nov 2013 #17

That's cool. Good to hear it. n/t Cleita Nov 2013 #32

Your grandmother and mine must have been cut from the same cloth.... Little Star Nov 2013 #18

She herself was raised on the farm back in the late Nineteenth century Cleita Nov 2013 #31

There are trade-offs with progress.... MADem Nov 2013 #21

This is how I grew up in VT. We would take one trip to the mall at somepoint between Thanksgiving glowing Nov 2013 #22

i don't remember thanksgiving '44. i was 3 years old. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #24

We were living with my grandmother and aunt and uncle because of the housing Cleita Nov 2013 #25

I remember being taken to various downtowns when I was a little kid Warpy Nov 2013 #28

Late to the party mcp37 Nov 2013 #33

Welcome to DU Cleita Nov 2013 #36

Never too late for a post like yours. Welcome to DU, friend, and japple Nov 2013 #68

37 is not middle aged! ginnyinWI Dec 2013 #73

Thank you for the lovely post. Paka Nov 2013 #37

I have the fondest memories of those days Suziq Nov 2013 #38

i loved downtown brooklyn. when i was a kid we couldn'd DesertFlower Nov 2013 #55

Alexander's on Main Street mitchtv Nov 2013 #67

Thank you, Cleita, for this lovely post. madfloridian Nov 2013 #40

Thanks, Cleita. You revive good memories with me too. nt Hekate Nov 2013 #41

Thank you for babylonsister Nov 2013 #42

Smoking a bowl of fine herb with friends and family... nikto Nov 2013 #44

Now there's a plus for the 21st century--at least in CO and WA n/t eridani Nov 2013 #56

I'm right there with you in your nostalgia.... Useless in FL Nov 2013 #45

As a kid in the 60s, I remember the day after Thanksgiving as... MarianJack Nov 2013 #46

I thought that 'Black Friday' was . . . aggiesal Nov 2013 #49

Could be. MarianJack Nov 2013 #51

Here are some links. aggiesal Nov 2013 #53

Thanksgiving of '44 was celebrated without the men of the family - still serving: Chipper Chat Nov 2013 #50

Christmas 1944 dem in texas Nov 2013 #52

We went downtown Minneapolis roody Nov 2013 #58

We never did it Thanksgiving weekend, but those window displays... countryjake Nov 2013 #59

Have I got the place for you! JNelson6563 Nov 2013 #60

downtown Christmas memories northoftheborder Nov 2013 #65

Shared on FB (if that's okay) tofuandbeer Nov 2013 #64

I wasn't around during WWII. I wasn't a hint of a gleam in who would become my bluestate10 Nov 2013 #66

Thank you for this lovely, nostalgic thread, Cleita. It brought japple Nov 2013 #69

I didn't arrive until September of 1945. Lugnut Dec 2013 #70

I work in a hospital. TNNurse Dec 2013 #71

growing up on a farm in small town America littlewolf Dec 2013 #72