ROGER SOUND LAB.

70'S video arcades (todays just suck)..

Not a person, product or store: Sunday Closings

You youngsters will not remember, but Sundays used to be a day when almost every store was closed. Only convenience stores & gas stations were open. Everybody had the day off. It was kind of nice to have a day when you couldn't shop . . . the world was just a bit slower - in a good way.

Ian

execmalibu and the amazing wondertarga.

Gee Slo Bob,

My Mom and Dad are from Wisconsin. My Mom passed away this past October, about a week after I got back home from SWA. As a kid we spent our time between Milwaukee and California, settling in California. My Mom Really loved Gimbels. Her brother Milton worked his entire career at Pabst and when we lived on Keefe Avenue I recall all of the large signs for Pabst, Blatz and Schlitz. Milwaukee was such a great place in those days of the late fifties and early sixties. But those things you bring up as being gone really stuck home. Wasn't there a hamburger place in Milwaukee or Wisconsin called "Georges" or something like that? They had sliders that as a kid I just loved.

And My Aunt Verna lived down the street from Hammering Hank! I remember meeting him one night at a local Pizza Joint. That must have been, gosh 1960 0r 61.

Sears Christmas Catalog

This still happens in Bergen County, NJ - specifically in Paramus, home to 3 large malls. I think the reason they kept the blue laws going was to give the folks who live in Paramus a break from all the traffic and noise.

Simpler times - how I miss those days...

-Z

I'm sorry about your mother's passing. I lost mine as well 2 days before last labor day. Let's add them to the list.

Mine was truly a Milwaukee list. It wasn't called "Brew City" for nothing. Miller is still here but really just kept around as a working museum. That could certainly change for the worse. The Blatz and Schlitz buildings have been converted into condos and an office park respectively. Pabst has been long closed but it's soon to be used in a like manner.

Gimbels meant Christmas to me. We would go there and I would help my mom shop for everyone else in the fam. I was too young to be in school at the time. We would walk across the way to the CookieCookie house - a really incredible "Gingerbread house" complete with cookie conveyor belts, elves (even then I recall some of them being totally hot! :)) and of course Santa.

The hamburger place you refer to - George Webbs? I thought those were everywhere? They are alive and well here - 2 clocks on the wall and all.

Good times. Milwaukee is still a great place and has been resistant to change, but it has.

Fastlanecutie

+1

Vino Tech in Culver City

numerous small boutique store and cafes
to many to list but if they opened their biz
in the last year most are gone :(

I stay away from major chain anything...


if I can :rolleyes:

Gimbels, yes, I remember "window shopping" with my mom and aunt's and your description helped me remember the Gimbels windows as being the best. I could not recall what store it was. What a place. Back in 63 we relocated to Santa Ana CA. I remember my Mom being so excited as she had seen the Christmas windows at Buffums and it reminded her of the big department store Christmas visits in Milwaukee. I remember the ornate Christmas Village scenes in Gimbels, and was it there that the Santa's Workshop as well? Gosh this floods the memory banks!!!

The last I was in Wisconsin was January 1995 when my Dad's mom passed. Previous visits were somewhat sad as the state seemed to go through a downturn, at least that was my impression. But in the past 10 years the place, the whole darn State somehow has become a wonderful place. I cannot believe the impacts of the reforestation programs down by Madison on your way north and wow, the forests up by the Dells! The only thing I can not take is those tough winters, but it is tempting. And another thing, I have always been a Packer Fan, through thick and thin and I just love that black and blue NFL football. Wow, the memories.

And just for You SLO, great heros of our youth:

Eddie Matthews and Warren Spahn!

Hugh aka SoCal Driver

Meadowdale
Marshall Field's
Aretz Field (where my father, then I learned to fly near Purdue)
Meigs Field
Goldblatt's
Wiedeman's Beer
Stroh's Beer
Falstaff Beer

My childhood heros from the Milwaukee Braves! Better add Hank Aaron to that group. :)

And I never met him... but from what I've read (his posts), and other people's... :(

SoCal driver

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Originally Posted by Danimal16
And just for You SLO, great heros of our youth:

Eddie Matthews and Warren Spahn!

Jim Richards - My childhood heros from the Milwaukee Braves! Better add Hank Aaron to that group.



Man guys, I could do a thread on "those who are gone in baseball and the Pack" alone. Used to see Hammerin Hank all the time downtown. He owned a Burger King there and stopped in a lot. Really nice guy. Always smiling. How about Lou Al Cinder? Used to see him all the time too until he went Muslim. Hell - how about County Stadium? I saw the last Packer game there, but missed the last Brewers game. :(

Marshall Fields (as mentioned by T6DPilot) is another recently departed from here. Forgot about that. Really, they just changed the sign to Macy's tho.

I only wish I could put winter on the list. It was 60 here the other day tho. Got the Beemer out. Nice!

the automat.

Did anyone mention Tower Records? Noticed one closed today in a strip mall, guess no one buys cd's anymore.

I met "Hammerin" Hank" at a pizza joint in my Aunt Verna's neighborhood. What a cool guy. Your right, he goes in that group as well.

Atomic Records

Another Milwaukee one but it's our version of Wall Drug. People from all over the world know it. It was the go to place for anything not mainstream. Often visiting bands would do jam sessions there. I saw the Silver Sun Pickups there 2 years ago. It was great.