Remember when

My wife was a Kmart manager when we met.

 

Blue light special

 

She was on sale.

 

My first job with a real paycheck was an after school job at a place called S.S, Kresge. That was just before they went big and changed their name to KMart. It was more a Five & Dime store than what KMart became but they had the blue light specials and a lunch counter where I could always get a grilled cheese sandwich. After they opened a KMart in town, the Kresge store stayed opened for manager trainees to get experience before moving to the larger KMart. My job was pushing the broom so KMart was not in my future.

 

Did you get the extended warranty??

 

'As is'

 

Forgot about that, was a good one

 

Oh MD 20/20 lol gross

 

Like Wild Turkey

 

A couple of Western Auto mentions got me thinking about a few tools I inherited when my Step Dad passed. Westcraft labeled 1/2" Breaker Bar & a Ratchet too. Probably have a few hand wrenches also.

 

My first 4x4 was an ‘85 Jeep CJ7 (purchased new for <$10k), first mod was 33” Mickey Thompson MT purchased from Western Auto.

 

i remember when 18 and had a hard deal. hitch hiked 20+ miles after riding 7 miles on bike. for a 5.75 hour job. after 3 months i had an apartment. i had a 32$ food budget for 7 days. walked to work. had 10$ a week for gas. embarrassing but i stole ciggerettes to sell for food. felt lucky when i could buy a whopper w/o cheese for 1.08 1997 was tough. took 1 month of saving to buy 20$ of herb for a weekend.
but having a hard time then built the moderate man i am now. life still is tough, but i never throw the towel in.

 

i remember buying orange juice in glass bottles and reeses peanut butter cups were 45 cents.

 

i remember getting beat down for a c+ on my report card in 4th grade. cant pull that off now. got a 4.0 in 5th grade from that inspiration. oh, and earned the presidential physical fitness award.

 

No -I also remember also when no K-mart - Yea -I am that old! BTW K-Mart, Wal Mart, and Target all opened their first stores (that is if you don't count their original smaller versions a bit earlier) in 1962 -with the slight edge going to K-Mart by a couple of months!

 

and montgomery ward. got my 1st bike there.

 

"Monkey wards", Sears, and JC pennys (plus more), were a different type of store and Waaaaay ahead of Wal Mart, K-Mart and Target

 

and way better in many respects. american product sold by blue collar workers. i now look forward to every quality tool i can buy as it isnt easy.

 

Our first "buy all" store before k-mart was called Tempo which basically was a more regional store than k-mart but the same.

 

We also had Gibsons and Grand Central in Cheyenne.