Friday, May 02, 2014

 

Haiku Friday: Gone but beloved....


Why would anyone change the name of the iconic "Alice's Restaurant" from the Arlo Guthrie song?  I don't know, but it leads to our topic for Haiku Friday this week:  Businesses we love though they are gone.  Department stores, restaurants, gas stations, shoe stores-- take your pick.  

I can go first:

It was a real treat
To  ride the escalator
At Jacobson's, then.


Now it is your turn-- just make your haiku 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third...


 

 


Comments:
Ben Franklin sold all,
Candy, toys, and everything,
Best dime store ever.
 
Thanksgiving weekend
Big department stores downtown
Christmas windows, Joy.
 
Clancy's Drugstore,50th & France

One could take residence
There: 99 cent breakfast,toys,
Pills,potions,surprises!

Felt like home.You
Knew its aisles.Silver ladies
Sold what you needed

Like maiden aunts they
Helped you decide on remedies.
I bought a hat there.
 
"Alice's Restaurant wasn't the name of the restaurant."....
 
Woodward and Lothrop
First grownup shopping with Mom
Now an H & M :(
 
Downtown Center square,
I saw my name on a store:
"Angela's Jewelry"

(P.S. "Jewelry" only has two syllables where I'm from: jew'l-ry)
 
Bookstore on The Hill
Every Saturday with Dad
Bought me Fall Is Here

xo
 
Whitey's Bar & Grill
Great big neon sign out front
Now high end dining.
 
Olssons and Kemp Mill
Penguin Feather, Record Works
Record stores- all gone

 
Conrad's soft ice cream
Muscle cars and cut off jeans
Me? Too shy, not cool
 
The Frozen Dairy Bar
Iconic building long gone
Frozen custard lives!
 
Waco's The Elite
Went all fancy few years back
Would Elvis Approve?
 
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The Thruway Market
Its smell I can still conjure
Smells like my childhood
 
Good Gravy...IPLawGuy is on fire! The Spanish Medievalist is quite correct about Ben Franklin. It used to be the highlight of my trips to Cheney,Washington where my brother,Rock, lives. You go in needing nothing,and exit with a gigantic bag full of stuff.
 
Smelling of hamsters
The last true general store
John's Variety.

(John's Variety in Mound closed last year. Fabric, tools, small caged pets, housewares... I swear some merchandise has been on the shelves since the 1970s.)

 
My childhood did not smell like hamsters, for the record.
 
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