Chuck, thanks for the info re: Freedlanders.?
I'm so sorry to hear of it's demise.? By how many years did Freedlanders
"outlive" The William Annat's Company?? Freedlanders was always our
family's first choice for shopping in Wooster.? Mom and I usually headed
downstairs to the "bargain basement" first.? If we couldn't find what we
needed, we'd head upstairs to finish our shopping.? Remember how they put
the money into a round tube, sent it up to shoot to the "main office" to make
the transaction, the bill and any change were put back into the tube and
returned to the customer.? A shoe shop downtown Indianapolis still has that
paying system.? Except, they use a wire basket hooked on to a rope with
pulley in place of the tube and shoot - which was a forerunner of what many
drive-in banks use today.? Was Mr. Freedlander ahead of his time or
what!
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Addie
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Subject: [dalton59] Freedlanders
Did anyone ever visit Santa Claus at Freedlanders?? If you want to
do it again, you'll have to do it this year because Freedlanders is closing
after the holiday season.? There was an article on the Daily Record
website that said that Stanley Gault, who had bought the store several years
ago, found that it was unsustainable and so made the decision to close
it.
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The building will be demolished and in its place a retail/condominium
block will? be erected.
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That's the end of an era.?
?
Chuck
