Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Grade school kids buy presents at Mitchell's


Oh, my.
Somewhat remarkable that these are still in The Stuff. 
However, since Mother kept them, how can I dispose of them?
I don't think they were purchased for major occasions like Christmas or her birthday, but Mother probably got these for Mother's Day or maybe just because one of us really, really wanted to buy something, and these each seemed somehow wonderful at the time.

I mean,  that is truly a remarkable poodle, don't you think?  Clearly a treasure.
And the girl in the green (it used to be green, anyway) dress is a trinket box.  The lower ruffle covers a little dish, and the rest of her is the lid.  Pretty snazzy.

I look at these wonders and think "Mitchell's".
(And if you think, "Mitchell's", you start thinking about yo-yo's, and chewing gum, and candy lipstick, and candy cigarettes, and... never mind.)

Mitchell's Variety Store was in the Fairfax Shopping Center, and in those long ago days we were occasionally allowed to ride our bikes to it.  Traffic was the main thing to be worried about, apparently, and there was only the semi-busy Shipley Road to cross.  The rest of the route was through housing developments.  I think we just had to all three go together, and be home in time for lunch.
I'm sure that the boys were allowed to go without me at some point when I was old enough to be less interested in the trip or busy with other things, but I don't exactly remember that.
One of the stores in the Fairfax center had a soda fountain.  Hoy's 5&10, maybe?  Anyway, I know that we were known to buy root beer floats there at unlikely hours of the morning.

Mitchell's morphed into a train and hobby shop at some point, and is completely gone now.

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