Beachbound

Here's your laugh for the day~ I grew up in Akron & as soon as I read your post I started thinking "On Halles 7th floor, we'll be waiting for, you to ring the bell" Yep Mr Jing-a-ling!!!!

Jan2

In Columbus, Ohio, years ago, that was one of the few places that you could buy fabric. My cousin tells of she and my mother standing and waiting on someone else to put a bolt down so they could get it!

janie3954

I know they were still selling fabric in Butte, Montana in 1976. I was pregant with my first daughter and bought fabric there to make materinity dresses.

vschieve

Just to think that years down the road the next generations of quilters and sewers will be talking about the days back when they COULD buy fabric in the stores like WalMart and HObby Lobby, JoAnn's and Hancocks just like we are today! There is nothing like a walk down memory lane.

GailG

I remember buying fabrics from all three of these stores. Also rememer fabric departments at K-Mart as well as WalMart.

Lyncat

I remember going shopping with my grandma in the 60s. We would go to town on Wednesday to buy groceries, and would always make a trip to J.C. Penney to the fabric department. We bought the fabric for my 7th grade home-ec project there. It was nice when department stores actually had lots of departments.

CRicart

When I worked at Sears during college in the early 70's, they sold patterns and fabric. Nice stuff, too! Yarn as well.

maria zamora

It's nice to remember all those fine stores and their beautiful fabrics. what I remember best is my Mom treasuring every little piece of fabric she had. Do any of you remember your mother buying flour, sugar, beans, rice etc. in those big 25lb. sacks? Some of those sacks were made of real strong cotton. My mother couldn't let those sacks go to waste. She would pull them apart, wash them and collect four or five of the same pattern. She would make us the most beautiful ruffled dresses. We were three girls so every four months one of us girls would wear a new dress. That's how long it would take her to collect four sacks of the same pattern. I guess this could be another topic.

GGinMcKinney

When I was a little girl we drove about an hour to go to J C Penney in Garland, TX to buy fabric to sew. All the second floor was fabric. I remember the cutting tables and how they ran fabric through a meter that did the measuring and then they cut it. Imagine my surprise when many years later I married and my sweet hubby had a home in Garland. He took me to the Penney store. It was still there, but fabric dept. had already closed. This was in 1973. Memories

bamamama

Yes, I remember that, so did Sears. My grandmother lived across the street from Sears I remember walking over there with her to buy fabric.