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Title: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: timmyj3 on January 10, 2012, 11:42:49 AM Growing up in the 60's there were many many corner grocery stores. We had a pretty good one. Stawskis on 15th and Dakota. They had a lot of groceries packed into that little store. I believe they did their own butchering. I think they lasted into the late 70's to early 80's. Just part of a time gone by. The Sentry on 13th and Oklahoma did them in but they too have been long gone.
Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: nectarsis on January 11, 2012, 07:08:10 PM Growing up in the 60's there were many many corner grocery stores. We had a pretty good one. Stawskis on 15th and Dakota. They had a lot of groceries packed into that little store. I believe they did their own butchering. I think they lasted into the late 70's to early 80's. Just part of a time gone by. The Sentry on 13th and Oklahoma did them in but they too have been long gone. We had a few i went to regularly back in the early/mid 80's. I lived off of Palmer, and North Ave...we had at least a dozen between 3rd (Martin Luther King), and Holton, and Brown and Center that I went to ALL the time. Many were still run by old immigrant families, gave the stores even more charm. Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: Roadsnakes on January 15, 2012, 12:35:09 PM Growing just south of " Kozy" Park, we had a corner store on almost every block. :) The one on 9th and Harrison even had a mechanical popsicle breaker to break your popsicle in two nice pieces. ;)
Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: timmyj3 on January 17, 2012, 09:00:44 AM Wow. Mechanical popsicle breaker. I never heard of that! Is Harrison a little south of Cleveland Avenue? Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: nectarsis on January 17, 2012, 07:59:18 PM Wow. Mechanical popsicle breaker. I never heard of that! Is Harrison a little south of Cleveland Avenue? I to am intrigued by this Mechanical popsicle breaker LOL Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: Roadsnakes on January 22, 2012, 01:48:09 PM Harrison is just north of Cleveland. Right on "The Crick" or creek.
Back then popsicles were only sold in two`s. You had to break it to eat one at a time, or share it with a friend. The store on 9th and Harrison had a popsicle breaker bolted to the wall. You`d put your popscicle in, push the breaker, and it always broke it into two nice popscicles. ;) Unlike when you`d break it yourself. Sometimes it would break into three or more pieces. :-[ Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: timmyj3 on January 23, 2012, 03:17:04 PM Nice explanation of the popsicle breaker. Just never saw one. There was a drug store on 13th street just north of Cleveland we would frequent sometimes. I lived on 15th street between Manitoba and Dakota. Our usual drug store was on 16th street by St. Alexanders. Title: Re: how about the many corner grocery stores? Stawskis on 15 and Dakota! Post by: Roadsnakes on January 27, 2012, 06:12:13 AM The popsicle breaker was much like one of todays "can crushers". Instead of putting a tin can in, you`d put a popsicle in, push up on the lever, and the popsicle would break evenly.
I remember the drug store on 13th and Harrison. I think there was also one on 9th place and Arthur. There were alot more family drug stores and bakerys back then. 8) Although, it seems there`s a Wallgreens on every block now a days! :o LOL |