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11. Almart , Sears, Bambergers, Wanamaker's, or

Reply to debm55 (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 10:54 PM

Mar 25

Newark Department Store. The department store was about the only place you could find girls white cardigans and girls slips. I loved going there because they had one of those vacuum tube systems. You’d pay the clerk, she’d put money in the tube and it would get sucked up to the main office. They’d put your copy of the receipt and your change in the holder and send it back down to the clerk.

Shoes were from Pilnick’s, and no white patent leather shoes before Memorial Day!

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When you were a kid, what store/stores that is/ are no more did you get your Easter outfit from? shoes were from Bakers [View all] debm55 Mar 25 OP

Was Bakers the one with the X-ray machine? Biophilic Mar 25 #1

The one I went to didn't have the machine. They used the metal thing. debm55 Mar 25 #4

I remember the x-ray machines for shoes Walleye Mar 25 #6

MayCo enid602 Mar 25 #2

"Easter outfit" Skittles Mar 25 #3

Hi Skittles, I was an outfit, I would wear to church and then to grandparents for dinner. Shoes, dress, hat, gloves. debm55 Mar 25 #7

ahhhhhhhh Skittles Mar 25 #13

We had sort of an upscale women's clothing store named Emmanuel's Walleye Mar 25 #5

Montgomery Wards or Sears. sinkingfeeling Mar 25 #8

Baker's for shoes and Alexander's in Springfield for everything else dai13sy Mar 25 #9

Shoes from The Shoe Box; USAF Brat Mar 25 #10

Almart , Sears, Bambergers, Wanamaker's, or woodsprite Mar 25 #11

Depended on where Dad was stationed. Dorothy V Mar 25 #12