tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post109702447395956527..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Sears Catalogmybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-35045127625337902502008-04-15T04:29:00.000-05:002008-04-15T04:29:00.000-05:00I doubt there are still any Duke and Ayres stores ...I doubt there are still any Duke and Ayres stores in business but it would be a cool blast from the past if there were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-85649331129867329052008-04-15T04:27:00.000-05:002008-04-15T04:27:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.siblishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16067496407183297724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-64380369874861357522007-04-25T09:00:00.000-05:002007-04-25T09:00:00.000-05:00I believe there are still a few Duke & Ayres store...I believe there are still a few Duke & Ayres stores still in business in Texas. My wife is from Thornton, so I know where Kosse is. I didn't know they still had a depot, but I'm glad to hear it. Too bad Mexia didn't have the sense to save the one there.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1860876424372467412007-04-24T21:50:00.000-05:002007-04-24T21:50:00.000-05:00Bill,in your Blog,you talked about Duke and Ayres ...Bill,in your Blog,you talked about Duke and Ayres 5&10 Stores.<BR/>Do you know when they went out of business??KingBushwicktheToityToidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973434510266477543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-83601689832342247242007-04-24T21:48:00.000-05:002007-04-24T21:48:00.000-05:00I read"The Toy Train Department"Volumes 1&2.*(*War...I read"The Toy Train Department"<BR/>Volumes 1&2.*(*Wards and Sears Respectivelly).<BR/>Being 48,I too have fond memories of Sears and Ward's Catalouges,both Xmas as well as the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter Catalouges.<BR/>Funny you should talk about Mexia.<BR/>While I rarely visited Mexia or Groesbeck growing up,my Maternal Grandparents lived in Kosse,so I was quite familiar with Limestone County!!<BR/>I nearly always hung out at the SP Depot every chance I got.Did you know that the Kosse Depot is alive and well??<BR/>Yeah!!It's the Office of the Saginaw CofC!!Now about 5&10 Chains.<BR/>I spent the first 15 Years of my life in Freeport,so I remember Grant's and Neisner's in Downtown Freeport and the Woolworth's in Lake Jackson.<BR/>But my folks bought a farm outside Flatonia,so some weekends if we sold a herd of cattle in Gonzales,<BR/>every once in a great while my Mom would leave the cattle trailer at the Auction Barn and go into downtown Gonzales.<BR/>And I remember the Ben Franklin on the square downtown as well as the Duke and Ayres!!<BR/>Plus,my folks moved to Flatonia when I was 15,so I lived there until 1996.<BR/>And I remember the Winn's in downtown Schulenburg and the Ben Franklin's in Flatonia and LaGrange as well!!<BR/>Hard to beleive that all the great Variety Stores are all just"dangol'dustinthewindman!!Oradangol'candleinthewindman!!Itdon'tmatter,it'sdangalloldiesallthetime!!"*(*Thanks and a Tip of the Hat to DangOl'Boomhauer from King of The Hill!!).KingBushwicktheToityToidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973434510266477543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1097045865896546572004-10-06T01:57:00.000-05:002004-10-06T01:57:00.000-05:00There's a book out called The Big Toy Box at Sears...There's a book out called The Big Toy Box at Sears that reprints all the toy sections from Sears catalogues from the fifties and sixties. If you can look through this without salivating you're dead or a very, very dull person.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.com