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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The only discount store was the 5 and dime aka ‘the dime store’ It did not sell food (except 1 penny candies). Stores like Sears and JC Penney sent out free merchandise catalogs 3 inches thick and people ordered their stuff from those if they couldn’t find it in a store. There were no strip malls.

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