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I remember "tourist courts" (early motels) that were tiny, separate cabins with one or two beds and a bathroom. Very primitive by today's standards and they cost about $6-7 a night.
I hope someone publishes this thread, it's good history.
I used to put on a nice dress and little white gloves and go downtown on the bus with my mother.
We'd shop in the big department stores, the small shops, and then go to Kresge's for lunch.
We'd sit at the lunch counter and have grilled cheese sandwiches with cups of cocoa--so yummy on a cold winter day.
Then we'd shop in Kresge's with the old creaky wooden floors and tables jam packed with stuff to look at. There were always canaries for sale in back and you could buy everything from hairnets to aprons to candy to toasters to mops to makeup, etc.
She might buy a few potholders or cheap kitchen towels and I would probably get bobby pins or some kind of trinket jewelry and then we'd go back outside and wait for the bus to go home.
That's how we shopped. No malls in those days. Oh, no credit cards either but my mother had a metal charge card kept in a little leather holder that she could use in either of the two department stores.
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