Kresge's turned into Kmart, I think...... only bigger now! -----Original Message----- From: can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:can-usa-migration-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Les Cameron Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:55 AM To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Foods You First Ate as a Child in '40's I recall Kresgie (?sp) and Woolworths in Lowell, MA. Les ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:13 AM Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Foods You First Ate as a Child in '40's > Hello, > > I need to get away from my computer right now, but I just asked my hubby > to > remind me of 2 of his childhood stories. He had eye problems as a > toddler and around Age 5 he started going to "Mass. Eye and Ear" in > Boston. > On the way home with his mother, they would stop for lunch, and he had his > first taste of "french fries." > > He came from a poor family, for several reasons, but partly because both > sets of his grandparents were immigrants. And, when he was about 10, > his > uncle built him a shoe-shine box, and he would sit on a Cambridge > city-street. When he had made a dollar, he went into the "lunch counter" > nearby and asked for "hot chocolate" and toast. The waitress spread > something on his toast and he didn't know what it was. It was butter. > > He said at this home, they would take lard and color it, etc., and make > oleo > with it. > > Right at this second, neither one of us can remember the name of the "5 > and > 10" type store which was in Central Square. It had a "lunch counter" > inside the store where you could sit and ask for coffee, or a sandwich and > a > soda, etc. I know about the "5 and 10's," and I know about the "Ben > Franklin Store." But what was the name of the similar store? The > store we're thinking of was still existing in New England up until about > 5-10 years ago. > > He said there were other stores which had "lunch counters." He > remembers > "Gorin's." > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > > List Administrator > > > (My mother was an OK cook, but not great. There were 3 foods which she > liked to cook for meals, which I did not like at all. "liver and > onions," her version of "pea soup," and asparagus. I still don't > like > liver. But, as an adult, I tried "fresh asparagus" and liked it. I > remembered she had always pulled asparagus out of a can. And, one day I > tried "pea soup" in a restaurant, and discovered it wasn't so bad.) > > (Her mother was a great baker ! She was well-known for her home-made > bread and rolls, etc. Because of genealogy, I found out she probably > learned how to be a great baker at "The Temporary Home for Women and > Children" in Boston. She was the grandmother who was twice-orphaned > near > Boston, and ended up at Age 10 in an orphanage, and then around 13 or 14 > when to "The Temporary Home." She remained there until she was about > 20.) > (Her Adoptive parents told her she was a "foundling" on the steps of a > church in Boston. I believe that was another "lie." I believe that > they were her grandparents, and that their married in daughter in CT had a > pregnancy outside of her marriage in the "summer of 1888.") > > (For unknown reasons, my grandmother was given the name, Daisy WATROUS, at > birth. At her adoption in 1892, her name was changed to Mary Anna Clark > DEXTER. The only thing I can think of is that her birth-father was a > WATROUS. Her Adoptive parents "knew" her both her birth-mother and > birth-father were, and they never told her. They died between 1899 and > 1905, while she was 10 and 16.) > > (I'm told that WATROUS is a variation on WATERHOUSE.) > > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I > find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the > SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! 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