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My earliest memory would be Uncle Wiggly... but soon after that I can remember reading the bible... and understanding that they were quite a different culture and 'spoke' using words that required a bit of *translation.
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the first word i taught my daughter to read where sale and clearance and in the days before the fair credit act of 1965,(US) (pathetic isn't it that i know that?) when store could and did give discounts for cash, Macy's had a brass plaque at the front door, noting it gave 3% discount for cash. I remember having it pointed out to me, and read to me, and being made to read it back. it is the only thing i remember being taught to read.
needless to say, when i got around to doing cost accounting in college, i aced it. cost accounting was mother's milk to me!
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The stores in NY where all5¢ & 10¢ storesthe words where never writen out.. so i think how that was spoken was a local idiom, since i am pretty sure they were Five and Ten cents stores in NY.-- but mostly they were Woolworth's or Kress's or Grant's all of which where a step up from Cheap Charlie's, and John's Bargain Stores, but where a step below real department stores, like Alexander's-- which was the lowest quality department store. All of these stores have gone out of business.. in the suburbs, ex urbs, there are Wal-marts and K marts. but there are No (not a one!) Wal marts in NYC, only 5 Sears (and all of them are pretty small, and none in manhattan,) and about the same number of K-marts. (2 in manhattan). there used to be a Woolworths every 10 blocks or so.. drug stores have more or less taken over selling all the sundry items you used to be able to buy there-- but not quite.
There were some notable exceptions to the fair credit act.. i think gas stations where excluded for some reason.. i can't think of the other exceptions, but they did exist.
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