Most people get nostalgic over the holidays its just normal. Most of the time, the smells of turkey, eggnog, and pumpkin pie trigger thoughts and feelings that we’d long since forgotten. Our parents always talk about what they miss when they were growing up that has changed. Mine for instance grew up during the late 40s through the 50’s and 60’s. My parents always talked about missing a soda jerk. They always talked about the smell that it had, the smell of a real vanilla coke. They talked about leather stores, walking into a store that had lots of leather items and the smell you got from them. The things they remember I will never experience, but from the way they describe them, so vividly, I’ll always wish I had.

One thing I remember from my childhood was the ending of the multi-level department stores. In my home town we had a department store called Mullers. Each floor was a different department and there was a person that operated the elevator. You’d walk into the elevator and a man dressed up in a nice bellhop style suit asked you which floor. When the elevator arrived he said “3rd floor, Toys”.

You’d thank him and get out and stare in amazement at the department. I don’t remember too much of the place other than I had pictures taken there and the first floor had lots of candies because they had a candy store. It was very early on in my childhood when they closed Mullers down. It was the last of a dying breed, giving way to Super Malls, less centralized stores, and Wal-Mart.

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