Oh, my brother works in the building with the clock! Or he did when I knew last...Things like the Palmer Candy company, Loes Market, KD Station, great places to go park, etc. But then someone the other day brought up the old Woolco before it got replaced with a Shopko. I remember that place oh too well! We only lived 2 miles away from it so we went there a lot. It was basically the Walmart before Walmart existed. My dad loved it.
This is another story about my dad. If you don't like them, then please leave now. But I promise it won't gross you out and isn't one of his pranks...
When I was about 5 or 6, I went to the Woolco with my dad. I think one or two of my sisters were with us. At that time, Dad was in the market for new dishes for Mom for an anniversary gift, so we browsed the dishes aisle. A salesman came up and asked to help us out. He was a young guy, maybe in his late teens, early twenties. And he was really pushing this new stuff, Corelleware!
I just looked up Corelle on Wikipedia and according to that, it came out when I was 4. So I don't think it was THAT new. But it was new to us and apparently the sales boy.
He was pretty excited about this *new* product and couldn't stop extolling the virtues of this wonderful new stuff. He claimed that it was shatter resistant and if Dad wanted to, he could just drop a cereal bowl on the ground to prove it. So Dad decided to. He took one of the white bowls with little brown flowers on them and let it fall to the cement floor.
It shattered into millions of little pieces!
The sales guy was stunned. He decided that it must have been a fluke and asked Dad to try dropping a plate instead.
It did too... Shattered.
I think Dad did a couple more after that too. And then felt so bad for the salesman that we ended up buying a set. Butterfly gold pattern... We had that set a super long time and only broke one or two in actual use.
But then again, we didn't have cement floors...
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HOLY MACKEREL!!! Those plates bring back a flood of memories. WE HAD THE SAME ONES!!! LOL
That is a hilarious story!!! Your dad is great!
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Funny! My mom had the blue pattern Correlware and still talks about it to this day! (She complains that the dinnerware nowadays is so HEAVY...I think she's referring to my Fiesta dishes...)
Oooooo.....I know how old you are now!!!lolol
That story is awesome! So "your dad" like too and much less gross than that other one....wink, wink
I bought my mom a set of the Woodland Brown pattern Corelle in 1981. She so wanted a set of those newfangled dishes after her divorce. I remember they were so lightweight!
I have 2 sets of a retired lmited edition holiday pattern called Country Memories in my storage unit.
I bought them on clearance in 1993 at KMart while visiting my mom in VA. (That pattern had been released for the Holidays in 1992.) I have never taken them out of the box even.
Just another thing I bought that I didn't need.....sigh
Haha!! What a funny story! Oh that poor sales boy! Your dad was so nice to buy a set anyway.
I bought a set of Corelle to take to college. I bought the one with blue around the rim. When we unpacked the dishes, I dropped a plate on the floor to see if it would break. It didn't! We were pretty impressed.
I still have some of those dishes. Man! They are OLD!
Lol! That is hilarious!
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