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Post by David Sechrest on May 31, 2006 16:02:09 GMT -5
Shoppers Fair was located on the south side of National Road. Wasn't it in the general vicinity of Como Plastics? There used to be a Burger Chef located not too far from it.
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Post by Jill on Oct 25, 2006 8:45:47 GMT -5
I remember that place! Yes, it was near Como's. It must have closed around 1971 or 1972.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 13:53:10 GMT -5
Shoppers Fair was located in the building on the west side of Burger Chef. After Shoppers Fair went out Cummins used the building for some time for offices.
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Post by terrys on Dec 21, 2006 20:14:19 GMT -5
I remember Shopper's Fair, but just barely. I remember it seemed like a bit of a free for all, but seem to remember some sort of carousel or other ride in the lobby. Hardee's took over both Burger Chef locations. The one near where Shopper's Fair was was still opened in the late eighties or early nineties.
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Post by Nikki Bonomo on Sept 24, 2007 19:26:58 GMT -5
My father used to be the "renovation man" of Shopper's fair. He worked there for many years, traveling to Battle Creek, Indianapolis, Columbus, Tulsa, etc. Wherever a Shopper's Fair was in trouble, they'd send Julius Levine to make it right!
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Post by luckyone on Sept 24, 2007 21:27:26 GMT -5
I remember Shoppers Fair pretty well. We shopped there often. I bought most of my 45 records from them during the 60's. I remember one trip very vividly. It was a rainy Saturday and the Righteous Brothers were singing Unchained Melody on the car radio. I guess the year was about 1965. I knew at the time that it was a little memory I would never forget. It's funny how something like that sticks in my mind and other useful info was just deleted.
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Post by Tim Ault on Aug 22, 2008 18:56:20 GMT -5
My mom was an assistant managr at Shoppers fair until it closed in 73. They had midnight madness sales where they were open past midnight and did crazy things to get customers in the place. A couple funny stories about the place, a new manager from the ny home office was trying to be a real go getter. He ran into a cummins employee on the floor of the store and asked if he needed help. The cummins employee told him he had been everywhere in town to find a lunch box and could not find any no where. Told the shoppers fair manager that there was 12,000 cummins guys that needed lunch boxes. The manager orders 10,000 lunch boxes in 69 and minus maybe 5 or 6 they all were in a trailer behind the store in 73 when it closed. They all ended up in the landfill when the packard trash trucks came to empty the store. The store was audited for missing money and the auditor asked about a cah register on a roll around cart. The audtor was told that it was the managers register that at xmas was rolled out in busy times to help on the floor and rolled back into the managers office at close. Funny that the register never was logged or counted into the deposit slips. The store when was in finacial trouble had to close in 73 the air conditoning broke and couldn't be fixed and then a church group was camped in the parking lot trying to pass out booklets to customers and the manager told them they could not do that. A church group member told him that he may need the lord some day. The manager said its 90 degrees and the air conditioning is broke, My store is broke and closing and I won't have a job next week, If I ever needed the lord it is now.
I can remeber my grandmother taking me to the burger chef that was 50 feet east of the shppers fair. I loved the fast food as back then Burger Chef was the McDonalds of today. I got a 10 speed Huffy bike from shoppers fair when it closed for a quarter. The managers got first choice of the sell off of the store and mom got me the bike. The manager called the childrens home and offered them all the clothes they could take for the kids and the person in charge told them they didn't want the crap clothes that shoppers fair sold.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Aug 24, 2008 10:04:40 GMT -5
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Post by Babs on Aug 24, 2008 12:34:03 GMT -5
Well I've drawn a total blank on this store. I sure don't recall any Shopper's Fair when I lived here in 1967 and 1968.
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Post by jdhinkle on Aug 24, 2008 17:08:03 GMT -5
HERE'S MY MEMORY WHERE CENTRAL CROSSED NATIONAL ROAD HEAD EAST MAHAN FORD ON LEFT THEN MILLER LANES ACROSS FROM MILLER LANES WAS NOLL PONTIAC LITTLE FURTHER EAST WAS ACCESS TO SAPS BAKERY OUTLET THEN YOU COME TO RAIL ROAD TRACKS ON THE RIGHT LUMBER CO THEN DUNFEE CHEVEROLET THEN SHOPPERS FAIR BLDG RIGHT EAST OF SF WAS BURGER CHEF THEN NEWSOM TRUCKING AND COMO PLASTICS BEFORE YOU CAME TO EASTBROOK PLAZA ACROSS THE ROAD WAS AYR WAY STORE AND OTHER STORES AS WELL AS NOBLE ROMANS THAT AREA IS NOW A PART OF THE SHOPPING CENTER THAT TOOK IN THE FAIR GROUNDS FOR THOSE WHO STILL LIVE THERE IM PROBABLY NOT COMPLETELY CORRECT MY WIFE THINKS CARRICO FURNITURE WAS IN THERE TOO Well I've drawn a total blank on this store. I sure don't recall any Shopper's Fair when I lived here in 1967 and 1968. |
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Post by Tim Ault on Aug 27, 2008 0:58:06 GMT -5
No, thw shoppers fair here was gray building with windows in center section and each end had these white I looking marks in rows up and down each end. It had a look that no other building I have ever seen had.
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Post by Tim Ault on Aug 27, 2008 1:02:51 GMT -5
Carrico furniture was to the west side of shopper fair and burger chef to the east. The buildind was straight across from where Target is today at the entrnce to the faur oaks mall is now. Como PLastics set next to the Burger Chef on its east side.
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Post by ppennington on Sept 13, 2009 19:44:11 GMT -5
what about Tempo ! my great aunt Doris worked there ! it was a trashy place I remember.....sorry Doris !
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Post by David Sechrest on Sept 15, 2009 0:13:21 GMT -5
Was Tempo the place just off Central? The place I'm thinking of sat back off the street. You turned somewhere around where you turn in to go to the mall.
The old PSI place sat on the ne corner of 25th and Central, didn' it? Railroad tracks crossed Central north of 22nd and about a block east across 25th after you passed Central Ave.
There's the old fairgrounds on your left...
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Sept 15, 2009 5:45:46 GMT -5
Tempo was at the Columbus Center Shopping Center Was Tempo the place just off Central? The place I'm thinking of sat back off the street. You turned somewhere around where you turn in to go to the mall. |
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Post by tim ault on Sept 19, 2009 14:53:44 GMT -5
Tempo was at the Columbus Center Shopping Center Was Tempo the place just off Central? The place I'm thinking of sat back off the street. You turned somewhere around where you turn in to go to the mall. Tempo was at the very end of Columbus center next to the old Jay C Foods store. Beam Road faced the entrance to Tempo's tire bay entrance. It later became Centry House Catalog Showroom and then Big Lots. The location over off Central you talked of was where Loudens Food Store was and then became Big Blue before it burnt down. |
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Post by kathybeav on Oct 4, 2009 17:19:37 GMT -5
What about "The White House" department store downtown on Washington? I remember working there one Christmas season approx 1968. (I think I have the name right -- anyone remember it?)
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Post by RER on Oct 4, 2009 17:37:22 GMT -5
What about "The White House" department store downtown on Washington? I remember working there one Christmas season approx 1968. (I think I have the name right -- anyone remember it?) Welcome Kathy, Being a male I never shopped at the White House, but I remember it well, in the 1950s and 1960s. It was located as you know at 422 -426 West Side Washington Street. The store was between Dell Brothers (mens shop) and Linsay Men's Clothing Store. Most ladies shopped at the White House including all my female family members that I recall. Here is a quick look back in the 1950s. The White House has a pink lighted area after the Dell sign:  |
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Post by Babs on Oct 5, 2009 8:06:16 GMT -5
I loved The White House (owned by the Hilger family as I recall). ;D Bought my first set of every day dishes in their china department, think it was in the basement as I recall and even though we've been married almost 52 years I still have a bath mat purchased at The White House. I bought a set of linens (towels, sheets, etc.) for my hope chest and yes the flowers on the bathmat are still visible though slightly faded after all these years. The brand name was Field Crest and the set was The Field Flowers design. We also purchased a tea cart and our first vacuum cleaner from there (both long since history of course). The tea cart was made by Hamilton Manufacturing (Costco) and the vacuum cleaner was a Hoover. NO I don't use the bathmat any more, have simply kept it for a keepsake as one item from my hope chest.  |
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Post by guest on Oct 5, 2009 11:56:54 GMT -5
Carrico furniture was to the west side of shopper fair and burger chef to the east. The buildind was straight across from where Target is today at the entrnce to the faur oaks mall is now. Como PLastics set next to the Burger Chef on its east side. I would like to say at one time( back in the 50s carrico was also located on Jackson st) If I am wrong sry |
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