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<blockquote data-quote="Jefpainthorse" data-source="post: 1348515" data-attributes="member: 11766"><p>"I get very focused when I go shopping at Wal-Mart. I try to make it in and out as fast as possible. I choose my parking spot based on what I will be shopping that day, and proximity to likely places for people to just leave shopping carts. I then enter the store with a plan of attack, and follow that plan to the letter. I know that if I stray from that plan, the mission will fail"</p><p></p><p>When I was a boy (best Grandpa Simpson voice) we'd go to the courthouse square. If we needed a Sunday shirt we'd go to Manner's Mens Shop... then get a fountain coke at the Rexall around the corner.</p><p></p><p>The gas station a block over had at least 3 guys working.... they'd fill your tires, pump the gas and do a "tune up" in the garage if you dropped the car off.</p><p></p><p>Our little town had 3 shoe stores... all of them stocking good quality American shoes... most of them made in places like Clarksville Tennessee or some little town up East.</p><p></p><p>Most everyone I knew growing up was paying on a simple house they could afford, worked one job (mom was home) and most of us kids worked for a farmer, tossed newspapers or had a part-time gig stocking or selling stuff at a Mom and Pop store. Most of the folks I knew could buy a new car every 3 years or so too.</p><p> Our TV was a Zenith. Motorala build our car radio and our home stereo came from the "Voice of Music" company in SW Michigan. GM built our Refrigerator and the washer came from Whirlpool ... USA</p><p></p><p>Take a ride through any Midwestern town... even OKC. Read those faded painted signs on the brick. WE USED TO BUILD EVERY QUALITY THING NEEDED RIGHT HERE... and we sold it here too.</p><p>1930? 1955? How bout 1978? Things have really gone downhill in 35 years....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefpainthorse, post: 1348515, member: 11766"] "I get very focused when I go shopping at Wal-Mart. I try to make it in and out as fast as possible. I choose my parking spot based on what I will be shopping that day, and proximity to likely places for people to just leave shopping carts. I then enter the store with a plan of attack, and follow that plan to the letter. I know that if I stray from that plan, the mission will fail" When I was a boy (best Grandpa Simpson voice) we'd go to the courthouse square. If we needed a Sunday shirt we'd go to Manner's Mens Shop... then get a fountain coke at the Rexall around the corner. The gas station a block over had at least 3 guys working.... they'd fill your tires, pump the gas and do a "tune up" in the garage if you dropped the car off. Our little town had 3 shoe stores... all of them stocking good quality American shoes... most of them made in places like Clarksville Tennessee or some little town up East. Most everyone I knew growing up was paying on a simple house they could afford, worked one job (mom was home) and most of us kids worked for a farmer, tossed newspapers or had a part-time gig stocking or selling stuff at a Mom and Pop store. Most of the folks I knew could buy a new car every 3 years or so too. Our TV was a Zenith. Motorala build our car radio and our home stereo came from the "Voice of Music" company in SW Michigan. GM built our Refrigerator and the washer came from Whirlpool ... USA Take a ride through any Midwestern town... even OKC. Read those faded painted signs on the brick. WE USED TO BUILD EVERY QUALITY THING NEEDED RIGHT HERE... and we sold it here too. 1930? 1955? How bout 1978? Things have really gone downhill in 35 years.... [/QUOTE]
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