Today we are going shopping for my granddaughter's summer dresses. It's her birthday present that we put off a little in order to wait for the stores to stock the summer stuff.
We'll head to Kohl's first and then see what happens.
When I was a kid, there wasn't a lot of shopping around. The closest shopping area was Kamm's Corners located at Rocky River Drive and Lorain Road. There was a good shoe store, a men's clothing store for suits and dressy stuff, another store that carried kids' clothing, and a toy store that had just about everything. There was a Fanny Farmer store, a grocery store and a bakery. And the bank.
My mom would leave us in the car for a few minutes to deposit money or whatever she had to do. She'd bring along her little passbook and of course, her change purse that she carried everywhere. And we'd be in the parking lot so I'd look at the bank building and try to figure out why the bank had such a strange name -- Cleveland Crust. It just didn't make sense to me.
It was YEARS later that I realized that the stylized print they used for the sign made the "T" look like a "C." Isn't that a riot?
When we did go into the bank, they had those velvet barrier things on posts, and they had this huge island in the middle of the marble floor where you got all of your little deposit and withdrawal papers and made out your slips. And the pens on the chains that fit into sunken wells. The smell was also distinctive, dignified and moneyed.
Shoes made that clip-clip-clip sound on the marble.
When we were in about the sixth grade, they opened up Westgate Mall. It was an open air mall and we really enjoyed going there to see everything. And we also could ride the bus to downtown Cleveland for shopping.
It was really kind of neat.
Well, Kohl's isn't sounding all that exciting, but Lauren will enjoy herself. She always does.
Take care, and good shopping!!
See you on Tuesday then.
Karen
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