Features From Old Shops

[albaqwerty]

thanks to Wendi for the idea and didn't want to hi-h#jack her thread.

I remember the old fashioned lifts, the ones with 2 metal doors and the lift operator wearing a green uniform turning the dial to the correct floor.

Also, the smell of different areas of the department store, some were really nice, like the ladies fashion area and the deli with their goodies.

Any others?

[albaqwerty]

Padddy, I'm sure there's an answer to that but won't post it :-D

LJ, I think it's along the lines of growing old is natural, growing up is optional, Boaty and others put it better than that though :)

[stewey]

Anyone here from Newcastle-under-Lyme? Is Cheadle's the butchers on High Street still there?...A long shot, I know.

[horseshoes]

Our butcher used to save the rabbits tails for me and my friend, and we used to make long strings of them. Why? I couldn't tell you.

[daftgrandad]

We had two "real" butchers in our village.
One of them sold faggots,what a wonderful treat eaten cold then !.

[quinie]

Our corner shop sold broken biscuits and cracked eggs cheaply.Very popular they were too!

[stewey]

I remember some stores had cigarette machines on the wall outside so that you could buy, I think, five Woodbine's; I forget the price.

[catswhiskas]

I miss woolworths too, as it was in 60s and 70s, the pick and mix, always used to buy my xmas presents in there when I was a child.....my mothet had a pressure cooker, she used to do beetroot in it and was always having to wash the ceiling as a result, I hated it!

[sunny-dave]

My local butcher used to have a bottle of scotch on the counter during winter months - you were allowed to have a small tot if there was a queue and you couldn't be served immediately.

The presumed reason was that it was absolutely Baltic in the shop & he was worried about customers pegging out with hypothermia.

[douglas9401]

I recall a shop in our town having large cube shaped boxes mounted at an angle. The boxes had hinged glass lids and contained such exotica as Ayton Sandwich and Vienna Wafers.
My first job on leaving school was as a junior salesman in Currys where one of mu duties was to test the bulbs before selling, especially the fireglow ones, verrrrry poash. :)