hello old & new friends,
i know some people are away on vacation, but we needed something new/old to bring back some memories.
i do know that some of my buddies are "grandparents". some of us still have "teen-agers". so as i was waiting for my son marc to pick out new sneakers. i started thinking about how mom use to take me school shopping, as soon as august, rolled around. mom being a seamstress, needed to start looking for material, ahead of time. so 1st, we would start at "john's material store", on westchester ave, off of beach ave. from there we walked to parkchester. so that i could get my school supplies at "woolworth's", mom would also look for other sewing notions. then mom & i would walk to castle hill ave. where i would get all my hair accessories, while mom looked for other sewing notions. mom would then persuade me to continue our journey. so we walked down westchester ave, to the "square". where i would get my new shoes. then go into that woolworth's to see the different material and other sewing notions. then we would get an italian ice & head home on the #40 bus, exhausted. i always gave mom, a differcult time. knowing that it was going to be an all day thing & i was going to be exhausted, afterwards.
now we jump into the car & go to the mall. tell the "teens", what time & where to meet us. how i miss shopping with mom. maybe some of you other "stratton park" kids, would like to share, your old school shopping days!