For the First Time in 16 Years...

[K7SGJ]

I had to run out for a few last-minute items (empty ground ginger bottle! and no whupped cream) and I found to my very pleasant surprise that the Mars grocery store -- a small local chain -- was closed for the holiday. Not so the Safeway, of course.

Brings to mind when I was a kid and even the gas stations, bakeries and druggists closed at noon or one on T Day. Everything else was shuttered. And Sundays, too. And they wonder why the family has been disintegrating?

I agree with your statement on families these days. I can remember when stores closed at 5 or 6 on weekdays and Saturday, and were closed on Sundays. On holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., about the only thing open were hospitals. If you forgot something, you'd better hope one of the neighbors could loan it to you. And, that's another thing missing these days. Borrowing a cup of sugar or something from a neighbor. Hell, neighbors used to borrow cars and all kinds of stuff back then. Neighbors would care for the neighborhood kids like they were their own, and kids were very safe from predators, too. Seems like most folks don't even know their neighbors any more, much less care about them. That has a lot to do with why we moved to the boonhills.

[n2ize]

I agree with your statement on families these days. I can remember when stores closed at 5 or 6 on weekdays and Saturday, and were closed on Sundays. .

Not if you lived near a Jewish neighborhood as I did. Lots of stores and open air street market vendors were open on Blake Ave.Brooklyn Sunday morning,. After church you could head over there and buy a dozen hot rolls, a box of hot apple charlottes, groceries, appetizers, etc. if you needed anything from the hardware store you could grab it. But after 12 noon or 1:00pm they were all closed. But if you headed into my area a few blocks away which was mostly Italian and German no stores were open at anytime Sunday.

[kf0rt]

Not if you lived near a Jewish neighborhood as I did. Lots of stores and open air street market vendors were open on Blake Ave.Brooklyn Sunday morning,. After church you could head over there and buy a dozen hot rolls, a box of hot apple charlottes, groceries, appetizers, etc. if you needed anything from the hardware store you could grab it. But after 12 noon or 1:00pm they were all closed. But if you headed into my area a few blocks away which was mostly Italian and German no stores were open at anytime Sunday.

Blimie & Herman Schreiber's place still closes on Saturday. Open on Sunday, tho.