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After reading the above story I sure do.
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At the other end of plaza was a Super Giant
Is that Penney's downtown? Yeah, I really do miss it. I can still taste the apple pie ala mode
ReplyDeleteAhhhh the good days. The lunch counter was an icon in the downtown department stores; now downtowns are wastelands, victims of the malls which too are soon becoming a thing of the past. Progress?
ReplyDeletePenney's downtown? Don't know about that but certainly could have been Read's Drug Store or Woolworth's.
ReplyDeleteThe tuna salad sandwiches at Woolworth's were great. And the milkshakes!
ReplyDeleteI think there may be a return to some of this. Malls are dying, but small shops on main street in some towns are making a comeback. We must improve the present and hopefully bring some of the good back from the past!
ReplyDeleteThem were the days and you didn't need to worry about anyone different than you sitting at the same counter.
ReplyDeleteI never did worry about who sat next to me at the lunch counter, not then, not now.
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ReplyDeleteThe "Slop" that was served at these place was the absolute best! My mom worked in the diner at the old pharmacy on the corner of Pinebluff Road back when I was a kid. I can't remember the name of the place now. Shame.
ReplyDeleteBy the looks of the crowd, not many. However, if you must, Doyle's Diner in Delaware still looks like this.
ReplyDeleteI remember when my grandmother took me to the Woolworth down on the Plaza when we would visit Salisbury back in the day. It was the highlight of a Saturday shopping day with her. Great memories. I'd give all the money in the world just to have one more of those moments with her. We would solve the problems of the world over a grill cheese and milkshake. Life was much simpler then.
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ReplyDeleteI remember the same. Before the old mall, the downtown plaza was a happening place! I also loved the restaurant at Woolworth and used to get a hot fudge sunday and a burger with my parents. The plaza was a wonderful place a Christmas.
935 Christmas was the best downtown. There was a Santa hut and all. I was very small when the downtown was still the place to go because we also had the Salisbury Mall then, too. But places like Vernon Powell and Benjamins were will downtown and never opened in the mall like Hess. Those were some good times. My grandmother and I would go on Saturday (back then everything was closed on Sunday) and we'd have lunch and shop the stores. I remember getting my first Buster Browns at Vernon Powell. To look at the downtown now, it looks like Pottersville from It's a Wonderful Life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this picture, Joe. Love these old pictures.
I sure do!
ReplyDeleteEnglish grill and their great breakfast but best of all was their "English Fried Chicken" by the bucket.
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ReplyDeleteIt was the Medical Center Pharmacy on the corner of Pine Bluff and Rt. 13.
ReplyDeleteCherry Coke (fountain) and French fries. OH MY THE MEMORIES and trust of society!
ReplyDeleteI do simpler more gentle times, people were friendlier and cared more about others.
ReplyDeleteBack then it wasn't the downtown plaza. You could drive both ways down Main Street. They even had Christmas Parades start on Fitzwater Street by Brew River and march down main street by the old Post office. Not only Reads and Woolworth's but Montgomery Wards was down there also along with R. E. Powell and Watson Smoke House.
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