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General Category => Hackensack History => Topic started by: johnny g on April 22, 2010, 11:50:59 AM
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Anyone have any pics of Bradlees (where Home Depot is now)?
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I remember it was a Two Guy's before it was Bradlee's...
Target, K-Mart, Sear's of now a days...... can't hold a candle to stores like Modell's and Two Guy's, Old Valley Fair, not the Valley Fair of recent years.....Bradlee's was OK though...
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Valley Fair was "The" place to shop when I was a kid...I never even saw a mall till I was a teenager.
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My sister used to work at Bradlees, but don't have any pictures. Chief mentions Modell's... man that place was the best... had everything. The grocery store upstairs had a conveyor belt and roller system that allowed for your groceries to be put in bins and then dispatched to the parking lot area downstairs where you would line up with your car and load them in. As a kid I always wanted to sneak into a bin and take a ride. Used to buy my record albums and MAD paperbacks at Modells. In the 60's and 70's who needed a mall, you had Modells.
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I remember going to Modell's with my dad and his best friend Joe. I can't remember anything that they purchased at the store, but I do remember that my reward for helping them was a roll or two of caps for my cap gun! For some reason their caps were more "powerful" than those purchased elsewhere and I remember Dad kidding me that they were illegal and to hide them once we left the store.
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Modell's was really the best!!! I always rode my bike over there and spent lots of hours 'shopping'. As I recall, there were individual vendors signed up for different departments. I spent lots of time visiting the different 'stores', and I remember buying my first set of 'luggage' there just before I left for college.