MORE STORES: Actually, we don’t have just a few more old
Bradford stores to tell you about – we have a lot!
We have been collecting mounds of information over the past
couple of months and hope to use all or most of the backlog within
the next week or so. We are trying to avoid any repeats while
keeping our eyes peeled for any unusual stories our readers had to
share.
And so, without further ado –
Mary Fairbanks in Florida writes: “Ah, I remember the Silverberg
Meat Market on Harrisburg Run. My fondest memory was while my
parents would be shopping we kids could be treated to a ride on a
whirling merry-go-round type of apparatus (actually is was
multi-colored metal seats that simply went around in a circle
propelled by an electric motor) but was the highlight of the whole
trip.
She also brought up a store we’ve already mentioned, Olson’s,
and noted: “I can remember my mother shopping for nylons there and
also they had a great ‘millinery department’ in the back full of
the most beautiful hats a girl could ever imagine. It was always a
special treat to purchase my Easter hat there each year.”
More on Brown’s Boot Shop: Karyn Birmingham Conlon of Oregon
City, Ore., writes: “Thank you, Mary Ann Cauley. I too worked for
Brown’s Boot Shop for a couple of years while in high school
(1953-1954-1955). Mr. Henretty was the manager then but your
husband also worked at the store at that time.”
“I’ve thought about that ‘X-ray’ machine and absolutely could
not place it in Brown’s Boot Shop. So – you only confirm my memory
– there was never an X-ray machine in Brown’s Boot Shop. For sure,
there was one in Oppenheim’s Shoe Store and I know that for a fact
because when I was a small child, my mother bought my shoes there
and they used that machine everytime I went in for new shoes.”
Martha McCabe of Reading writes: “I concur with the X-ray
machine being in the Ash Shoe Store. That was my recollection but
hesitant to claim that as a fact!” She also acknowledge the name of
Rose Tierney’s hat shop and then added, “Remember when you
shouldn’t step inside a church without a hat and gloves on?”
