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QUESTION: What’s one store/restaurant from your childhood that you would love to bring back?
Talk about it….
Please bring back Meryvin’s clothing store and Gemco department store and longs drug store. I love the Federated electronic store back in the 80s
I can’t name just one, there are a few that I liked. The Emporium in San Francisco on
Market St. always had a great selection of goods, and free carnival rides on the rooftop.
During the holidays, they had the best and most elaborate Christmas displays in the city. Another store was Woolworth’s on the corner of Market and Powell, also in San Francisco. When I was a teenager, there was a record store called The Music Box, they had several
small booths with a record player inside that would seat four. You can take records from
the shelves and play them in the booth. We’d sit there for hours listening to records, and
then decide which ones we wanted to buy.
There was a small “hole in the wall” Mexican restaurant that served homemade food made from scratch, my dad loved their tamales, and he would often take us there to eat.
Happy Steak
Longs Drugs
Radio Shack
Agree, Radio Shack Mims books were of great help in me passing training classes. These days most are available on the web for those wanting to get basics. If anyone has kids or grand kids who show an interest in electronics share the URLs with them.
Would like FRYs park n shop store back.
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https://tinyurl.com/yvjyvj43
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https://archive.org/search?query=Forrest+Mims
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Others
https://tinyurl.com/3jw82k6p
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https://tinyurl.com/mt4spvav
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https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2019/09/relay-symbols.html
Bring back:
Gemco, Scott’s and Velvet Turtle restaurants, and the sporting good store on CCC Bl in PH where the consignment store is now (it was a real sporting goods store)
Simon’s Hardware.
Morgan’s Machine and Marine.
Senor Pico in Ghirardelli Square.
FAO Schwarz in San Francisco.
The Little Professor bookstore over by Aladinos pizza in clayton.
TCBY yogurt on Bailey and Clayton Rd.
Lous Pizza in concord.. The BEST pizza to this day that i have ever had. I miss that place ALOT!
I miss CC Ole’s. Their food was so good. Never had anything I didn’t. Enchiladas Del Mar and Chicken Chiliquiles. YUM!