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Remember when?
Soda fountains and Saturday cartoons. Transistor radios and Sunday pot roast. Pull up a stool — everyone rides free.
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Stores Every Downtown Had Before the Mall Arrived
Saturday shopping was once like an epic journey. Before malls became mainstream, the downtown scene often featured individual stores serving specific needs. That meant going downtown wasn’t always quick. Shopping also wasn’t as straightforward with these specialty shops. A lot…
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Did you know?
4,000+
drive-in movie screens lit up American nights at the peak in 1958.
5¢
bought a fountain Coke at the drugstore — and the soda jerk knew your name.
73 million
of us watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan the night of February 9, 1964.
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