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Ok I am thinking that probably that 75% of this board . Worked in the days of 9 to 5 corporate. And retail stores 9am to 9 pm alot closeing earlier.No 24 hour stores ever.And no stores other than 7 11 where open on Sunday. Geeze how did we every survive? We all did pretty well I do rember. Me growing up in 60'& 70's. My question what if this country tried it just for one month .What would happen ? Ok discussion begins lol
 
Andy Lowry said:
What I miss is pay phones. Let's all ditch the cells and go back to pay phones.
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NO THANKS!!!!

Even as a kid, I felt queasy about putting one of those handsets next to my ear. You never knew who had used it before you. Might have been some leper with venereal disease! :eek:

As to the original post, heck, I remember life before 7-11. Their precursor were called Party Stores around here, and most of their income came from beer and alcohol sales, though they had a rudimentary selection of staples like 7-11 does now. No Slurpees though! Most stores weren't open on Sunday, or if they were, it was abbreviated hours. Nothing was open on major holidays either, and I mean nothing. No stores, no gas stations, everything was buttoned up tight.
 
Andy Lowry said:
What I miss is pay phones. Let's all ditch the cells and go back to pay phones.
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A few years ago I pulled into the Shell station by our church. A very slinkily dressed and very cute woman hung up her cell phone got out of her car and went to the outdoor pay phone to make a call. I turned to my wife and told her to look. This is the first time you will see a marital affair or Call Girl meeting take place before your eyes.

It has also been said, "As long as there is a Mafia, there will be pay phones"

In Columbus, Ohio in the 50's & 60's you could only be open for business 6 days a week. The Asian and Jewish communities kept us fed, gassed up and clothed.

Most gun stores in Central were only open 5 days a week Tuesday thru Saturday. Since the Now defunct Gander Mountain came to town only a couple are open 5 days a few more are 6 day (closed Monday) and anything like Cabela's, Dick's or any chain store is open 7! Plenty of second jobs for off duty cops. But all they have is the same stuff at MSRP that you can get on-line cheaper!

I have noticed a back-lash of protests (the wallet kind) against stores being open anytime Thanksgiving Day!

I think people are starting to realize, that they work 24/7 for very long. As the old saying goes:

I burned my candle at both ends, it made a lovely sight. But oh my foes and on my friends it did not last the NIGHT!

Ivan
 
Texas had “Blue Laws” up till the 80s, meaning most businesses were required to close on Sunday and the ones that were open couldn’t sell items associated with work, like hardware. They had blue plastic sheets over the shelves of forbidden items. I remember when we couldn’t buy a lock the Sunday we moved my brother in to Texas A&M (where he majored two semesters in beer and coeds)

People didn’t eat out much and there weren’t many restaurants in my hometown, and most of those were mom & pop. The only chains I remember were Dairy Queen & Churches.

For a treat, we rode our bikes to 7-11 for a Coke (which in the South meant any kind of soda.). You later returned the bottles for the deposit.

Or we rode to Dairy Queen for a 50-cent burger.

We rode bikes to baseball practice in a vacant lot. Afterwards the coach loaded us all in the back of his truck and went to 7-11 for a cold drink.

Remember the vacuum-tube testers at the 7-11?

As to the cleanliness of pay phones: people weren’t such germophobes back then. A guy who worried about such things would’ve been labeled as queer.

I remember my first drink out of a windmill tank. I tried to cup water in my hands. When I complained the water was dirty, my uncle said “that’s cuz you put your filthy hands in it”, as he bent over and slurped up water directly from the tank.

Those were the days. How did we ever survive[emoji33]
 
wingriderz said:
What would happen?
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You adjust. :)

In Switzerland, I had to get used to the "Old Fashioned" hours of operation, including everything closed on Sunday, except the baker for a couple of hours in the morning and highway rest areas. Additionally, the average home refrigerator was as small as those typically found in offices, so you couldn't stock up.

Another nod to the Sabbath I experienced in my small village was that it is frowned upon to do any labor at home on Sunday, not even washing the car.

A day of rest every week was OK once you get used to it.
 
Publix Supermarkets here in Florida was the last store I can rember to not be open on Sunday. As a child I rember their tv ads saying we choose to close on Sunday to give our employess a needed rest. Hmm so much for that now. They still do tv ads around the holidays showing family as a unit
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
In Columbus, Ohio in the 50's & 60's you could only be open for business 6 days a week. The Asian and Jewish communities kept us fed, gassed up and clothed.
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It was like that in the UK well into the 1980s. The Asian run shop was the only place for emergency supplies on a Sunday. There were a few things available at the 7 day a week gas station, but it wasn't 24 hour.

I was staying in London in 2001 and was baffled by the electronics stores closing up at 1730 after living in Vegas.

Vegas is weird though. The car dealerships are required to close on Sundays.
 
pawngal said:
One of the Midwest grocery chains, Fareway is still closed on Sundays. Sure doesn't hurt their business.
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That can't be true .. anytime a business is closed 1/7th of its available time to be open it will not make as much money !!

It has to effect the bottom line !!!
 
There was only one store open in my area back in the Day on Sunday. 50's/60's. We would stop there on way home from church and get a Sunday paper and Dad would always let me get something sweet. It was a Mom and Pop store that had everything from hardware to food. I still remember it. It was owned and run by Abraham and Issac Moses. Called Moses General store. A McDonald's sits there now. A shoe repair shop store was next door and the man made a good living and sent 2 children to College on that business. I dont think there is even a Shoe repair store in town anymore.
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
In Columbus, Ohio in the 50's & 60's you could only be open for business 6 days a week. The Asian and Jewish communities kept us fed, gassed up and cloth

Ivan
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Yep, that's where I grew up. If you suddenly discovered you needed batteries for a new toy on Christmas Day, you were out of luck. Chinese restaurants were open, but they didn't carry batteries.
 
My wife and I were on a road trip once, and we had just gotten to Hurricane, Utah. It had been a long day, and we were both kind of cranky. Up ahead, I saw a Dairy Queen sign, and said, "I'm getting a chocolate milkshake!" We agreed that would take the edge off. We pulled in, and what did we see? Well, this was on a Sunday, and we were in Utah. No milkshake.

This was about 20 years ago, and I still don't have closure.
 
We had the Blue Laws here in NJ until the 1970s, there were complaints that
they discriminated on the basis of religion.
In the Good Old Days you learned to stock up, plain ahead-batteries, e.g.
One thing I remember from my youth is that my family had a large freezer in addition to a refrigerator. It kept the ice cream cold.
 
Kanewpadle said:
If you can't make it 6, 7 ain't gonna help.
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I do rember that in the business I was in. I work and manage his shop. He was ole school. He didn't belive in working Saturdays either. I always rember him saying we hit ground running Monday morning. We did his business did very well. He took very good care of his help.He always said if you can't make it in 5 . Shut it down.
 
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My mother use to say that in the small Ga town she was from that they would roll up the sidewalks on Sunday.
 
The malls did NOT kill the downtown businesses.

The downtown merchants committed suicide.
The were only open from 9-5.
Workers with 9-5 jobs were expected to bring their money and buy on
Saturday.

When a mall opened these workers with the 9-5 jobs did not wait for Saturday to make a purchase.
The went to the mall on any convenient evening and bought merchandise there.

Modern cities no longer roll up the sidewalks every evening.
Now that they have concrete sidewalks, a fork lift is used to stack the sections.

Bekeart
 
keith44spl said:
Yup,

Back when a buck was still silver....

And a girl would still cook & chop wood. ;) :D


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Dave......Real women, real money, and pay phones....we would live dangerous again, you and me.

By the time I turned thirteen, I stopped working a nine to five, haven’t since. Weekends and holidays are always the busiest for me.
 
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