Where and when is the last time you saw a Variety Store or a General Store or Five + Dime store?
Well, there is one in Rhinebeck, NY and it's been in biz for 62 years. My Mom and I went there yesterday to get some stuff.
Stuff like:
A drip coffee pot for Mom and a pink elephant watering can for me!
What fun, as you can I was having -----and I spent under $5.
Here's a peek inside:
Isles + isles that harken back to my childhood wandering through my local Woolworth's and Newberry's in downtown Ossining, NY.
MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ELEPHANT WATERING CANS in FLAMINGO PINK + SILVER
And all that girlie-stuff that you never know where to find anymore....
Garters! and corset hook + eyes. Ribbons for your hair by the yard
Bobby pins + Hair nets! this is where they have been hiding all these years.
shoe laces, string
Tickets, pranks + gags, party favors
AND LOTS MORE.
Mom + I had a blast shopping for all our needs in there. I guess today, we have Dollar Stores- what an eyesore those places are. I never go in them. Then there's the mega-big-box store names, which actually started from small mom + pop businesses named Walton's and Kresge's.
Say, "good bye" Mom.....
.....we're off for an ice-cream cone next door.
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Gretchen - What a fun outing...lot's 'o small treasures...love the mexican jumping beans...one never comes across them with any regularity! I just bought some 'gag' stuff like they have there....and bought it because I never see that anywhere.
ReplyDeleteTime stopped in Rhinebeck...that's something to stop the car and get out for.
If only that coffee maker made that old fashioned percolator sound!
:-) Nina