i remember in first grade, asking my mother to let me go to the store by myself. it was a grocery store, i think it was an acme, yeah, i just checked with my mom, it was an acme grocery store. now its a dollar store. it still has the same floor, probably asbestos tile. not that big, maybe 10,000 square feet, about the size of a dollar store.
thing is, i was at most 6 years old. at six years old i walked a block up the hill with a dollar in my hand, crossed the street at the corner of dudley ave. and main st., went into the acme, got two loaves of white sandwich bread (not wonder) got change, and went home with the bread. i recall each loaf costing 25 cents.
i can not fathom any six-year-old doing that now. i remember feeling pretty proud about it.
now we dont even have anything close for my kids to walk to. i barely let my 10-year-old daughter buy something at a convenience store while i am in the car.
it was an acme, then a loblaws, then a great american (all grocery stores) and now it is a dollar store.
ok then
