On Thursday, December 25, 2014 11:59:13 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
> On Thursday, December 25, 2014 6:41:20 PM UTC-8, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 12/25/2014 2:47 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > > On 12/25/2014 2:02 PM, Jeßus wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:21:40 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > >> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Well, I wasn't alive in those days but from what I have read, they had
> > >>> little shops nearby and they bought things as needed.
> > >>
> > >> ROTFL. So, basically you're saying that everyone everywhere had
> > >> "little shops nearby" and could buy things as they needed them. Thanks
> > >> for that, I might not have ever gotten around to reading that
> > >> information.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Sounds to me like she's reading historical romance novels where the
> > > kithen maid finds an excuse to go to town every day.
> > >
> > > Jill
> >
> > There is some truth to that in the city. My grandmother wled just over
> > a block to the bakery for bread, stopping at the meat store on the way
> > home. A small grocery store was next door. It was common for the store
> > to sell "on the book" and settle up at the end of the week.
> >
> > There were many small stores every couple of blocks. Grocery, variety,
> > clothing, etc. Everything you needed in walking distance. The
> > popularity of the automobile and supermarkets started to change all of
> > that in the 1950's.
>
> Reference to an R L Polk directory will show perhaps hundreds of grocery
> stores in cities like Chicago in the 1920s. A friend's wife recalls
> horse-drawn carts carrying all manner of things down the alleys of
> her Chicago neighborhood as late as 1954. And, my FIL as a young man
> helped a produce peddler in the 1930s -- they would go to Eastern
> Market in the morning, load up the wagon, and go down the streets of
> a particular neighborhood, until all their wares were sold to the
> housewives.
>
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> Thank you! I don't know why people think I am making this stuff up!

Well Julie WE know that you are a "creative" writer...some of your creations are lulus for sure. Hard to tell if you really believe what you post or are yanking our collective chains for the reaction it engenders.