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Thread Number: 93336
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
Everything You Remember And Miss About ... Sears |
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Post# 1180059 5/7/2023 at 17:55 (352 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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The dishwasher that was featured at about 4:16 was the exact model (right below the LK Rotorack) that replaced the Waste King that my dad installed the day Dr. King was assasinated. I found it interesting that photos used for the various appliances ranged from 1960s/1970s to the laundry rom the 1980s after the DDs were being sold. I wish they'd been able to include photos of laundry models from stores in the 1960s as I felt those were far more classic and in the heyday days of Kenmore laundry.
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Post# 1180062 , Reply# 1 5/7/2023 at 18:21 (352 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1180064 , Reply# 2 5/7/2023 at 19:28 (352 days old) by BlockEight88 (Hobart, IN) | ||
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Post# 1180066 , Reply# 3 5/7/2023 at 19:56 (352 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 1180092 , Reply# 4 5/8/2023 at 10:39 (351 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 1180098 , Reply# 6 5/8/2023 at 11:27 (351 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 1180100 , Reply# 7 5/8/2023 at 11:36 (351 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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The very first credit that I established on my own was with Sears. I was 19 years old and bought a 12” color TV from the little Sears catalog store in Petaluma, Calif. for $169.00 on time. My payment was $6.50 a month, which I dutifully made in person every month at that very same Sears catalog store.
Then in ‘73 when I was 22 and was moving into a brand new apartment I bought my first furniture at the Sears store in Terra Linda, Calif., and of course added this onto my Sears acct. I bought a double dresser with a mirror, a Parson’s end table, and hexagonal night table and a credenza entertainment center. If a recall correctly it all came to just over $400.00. We still have the hexagonal table in our living room. I remember being very proud of myself that I was able to buy brand new furniture. My monthly payments to Sears went up to a bit over $20 with this purchase. And Sears delivered the furniture for free while I was at work and the apartment manager let them in for the delivery! Here’s a photo of that table. The black table lamp was purchased at the Salvation Army Thrift Store the year before for $3.00 and its one of our very favorite possesions. Eddie
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Post# 1180125 , Reply# 9 5/8/2023 at 18:00 (351 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Tom,
I don’t know that my acct. was called a Revolving Acct., but I never had any trouble adding additional purchases to my acct. However the payments went up accordingly too, and didn’t remain the same. Yes, you could easily get yourself buried in debt with the ease of charging additional purchases. After I bought the furniture in ‘73 that was the last charge purchase I made on my Sears charge acct.. Eddie This post was last edited 05/08/2023 at 18:59 | ||
| Post# 1180136 , Reply# 11 5/8/2023 at 20:12 (351 days old) by Pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
what i remember from sears
what i remember from my childhood from sears was owning in harvest gold this portable dishwasher in harvest gold and the one in white with the start button that was own by my godmother credit to turquoisedude for first pic and second pic from a member on the site
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| Post# 1180137 , Reply# 12 5/8/2023 at 20:14 (351 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1180146 , Reply# 13 5/8/2023 at 21:38 (351 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Sears restaurants I don't remember the "Coffee House", but some Sears locations had cafeterias similar to Morrison's and Piccadilly. I remember my friend Fred and I ate in the one in Canton, OH in June of 1972, before seeing the movie "Skyjacked" in the malls theater. | ||
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Post# 1180151 , Reply# 14 5/8/2023 at 22:03 (351 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I had a Sears Charge and it automatically changed to Discover in 1988. I kept Discover and it still works fine for me. My Sears store had a restaurant also with great food. As a kid, they has the clear Visi-Matic swirling Poker Chips on low speed and I would swith the speed to normal and run to the tv department. Lots of good old ads by searching, "Theres more for your life at Sears".
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| Post# 1180383 , Reply# 15 5/11/2023 at 20:54 (348 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country) | ||
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Post# 1180389 , Reply# 16 5/11/2023 at 22:38 (348 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Only 18 left
Should I drive the 2 hours and visit the two near me before they close?
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Post# 1180395 , Reply# 17 5/12/2023 at 01:12 (348 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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 I still have a lot of my dad's Craftsman tool that were purchased in the '50s and '60s, and I treasure them.
I live a stone's throw from where the early '50s Sears store that we'd occasionally shop at once stood. It was surrounded by a huge parking lot on all sides and took up a large city block. There was an auto center and a garden department/nursery area in the back, along with a Snackette. Primary exterior treatments were tall palms and glitter sidewalks. Some palms were saved but they're lost among other landscaping where a large Safeway and an apartment complex replaced Sears over 30 years ago. | ||
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Post# 1180408 , Reply# 18 5/12/2023 at 08:42 (347 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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I Loved Sears
I have plenty of wonderful memories of going to the large anchor Sears at Crossroads Mall in Waterloo as a child, and through my adulthood. Trips to go Christmas 'shopping' right after Thanksgiving with my folks, so they could figure out what us kids wanted under the tree. Trips in to the tool department so Dad could replace a 1/2" Craftsman ratchet that he had bought new in the early 70's. And the appliances. So many hours looking and playing with the latest and greatest Kenmore laundry offerings. And by the time I was old enough to venture the store alone, Sears Brand Central became a thing and just about every brand was there.
What I do wish I could have seen was the downtown Waterloo Sears store on W 4th St, with the front window lined with the newest 1959 Coldspot refrigerators and Kenmore laundry pairs. Sadly, the only building still standing in this photo is the YMCA building on the left. Everything else on the photographer's side of the Cedar River is long gone. The last memory I have of Sears is going to the downtown St. Paul store with a close friend, to pick up a new set of Gear Vendor ratchet wrenches. I'm so glad I made that last trip as the store was closed shortly after. One of my prized possessions is a 1/4" Craftsman ratchet set that my father gave me as a gift, that had been given to him from from my grandfather. I suspect it's from the late 40's and I do use it every so often. There's a really good chance he bought it at the store in the photo below. Sadly, there aren't any retail stores left that excite me enough for tools or lawn care products these days. While all the box home stores (Menards, Lowe's, etc.) have house brands that are decent, sadly this weekend warrior will forever remain loyal to Craftsman tools, even if most of cheap knock offs of the originals. Thank God for garage sales and eBay. Ben
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Post# 1180425 , Reply# 21 5/12/2023 at 13:56 (347 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Thankfully one of my Mom's good friends worked in the appliance department of the Eureka, CA Sears store, located in what was then called "The Mall" (Eureka was and is a small town in the middle of nowhere on California's north coast -- population approx 30,000). While my Mom and her friend would gossip, her friend would run a Kenmore washing machine for me to be entertained while the two of them gabbed about who knows what!
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Post# 1180572 , Reply# 22 5/14/2023 at 07:41 (346 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Put me firmly in the “loved Sears” column.
My family (I was born in ‘59) bought nearly everything on offer at Sears, from appliances, TVs, and clothing to home furnishings, tools, and house paint, most likely due to the easy credit terms. I was pretty weary of all Sears mania by the time I was 10 or so and developed a serious case of Frigidaire envy. Having said that, I loved wandering through the large appliance section of the store, looking into all the washers, refrigerators, ranges & dishwashers, much to the chagrin of the salesmen on duty. Can’t believe there are fewer than 20 Sears retail stores left. Even when we moved to a small town of 2,000 there was a Sears Catalog Store with a few appliances and tires on display. They were Amazon before Amazon existed and a retail powerhouse of Walmart-ian proportions. | ||
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Post# 1180580 , Reply# 23 5/14/2023 at 10:17 (345 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Sears seemed to me to be the first store with a computerized POS system (remember the big tall Singer terminals). I remember being quite awed by them and at about 10 y.o. being quite impressed when I asked at our store in Crestwood Plaza, Crestwood MO"do they talk to something" and they said "oh yes, they talk to Chicago". After all, my grandparents lived up there and that was a 5 hour drive away!
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| Post# 1180616 , Reply# 26 5/14/2023 at 17:17 (345 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Walking in the door and smelling frying nuts! | ||
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Post# 1180632 , Reply# 27 5/14/2023 at 18:33 (345 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Do you also remember the little metal railing between the fryer and the edge of the counter to prevent customers from getting too close to the heated surfaces? | ||
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Post# 1180636 , Reply# 28 5/14/2023 at 18:45 (345 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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1977 to 1986 Sears | ||
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Post# 1180643 , Reply# 30 5/14/2023 at 19:45 (345 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1180648 , Reply# 31 5/14/2023 at 20:52 (345 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 1180654 , Reply# 32 5/14/2023 at 22:05 (345 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1180664 , Reply# 33 5/15/2023 at 06:39 (345 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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#15...Brian and I did a FB post from Fort Lauderdale a couple years ago where the location at US1/Sunrise (an amazing Deco masterpiece from about 1952) closed roughly 1/1/22. The store was depressing but it was a nostalgic visit. Got some responses on FB but the one that caught us in the feels was from a friend (gifted auto designer who collects Bentleys and Aston Martins!) who mentioned that his family was going to really really miss Sears...because it was the only store where his grandmother could try on clothing.
See, Richard's Black--and even the respectable family (Ebony on the coffee table, Jack and Jill after school, etc etc) couldn't have his grandmother try on a frock or chapeau. (another cool Richard story--he saw a story in Ebony on Ed Welburn--the first Black car designer in Detroit--wrote a letter which started a correspondence...Ed was the president of GM Design in the late '00s and Richard followed him, recently designing the interiors for the Rivian) | ||
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Post# 1180671 , Reply# 35 5/15/2023 at 10:57 (344 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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flavor was nowhere near as good as the aroma. | ||
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Post# 1180679 , Reply# 36 5/15/2023 at 12:22 (344 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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I agree. If the brewed coffee tasted like its fragrance in the ground state or like it smells while brewing, it would taste far more pleasant to me than the beverage. Tea, on the other hand has very little aroma in the dry state, but tastes good as the beverage, with sugar, of course. | ||
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Post# 1180700 , Reply# 37 5/15/2023 at 20:56 (344 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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We know there is a business of making aromas, right? $$$
Yes the stuff you can buy at the store is one. Another are the industrial strength aromas that some businesses have specifically made for their product. Have you ever walked into a restaurant or store and and were suspiciously blasted at the door with a fan blowing ....the smell of.... what you HOPE to find inside. Fresh made Bar-B-Q perhaps, Cinnamon buns baking maybe, or Warm Apple pie is another possibility. etc. And don't forget the "New Car smell" most likely sprayed around new AND used cars of a certain age or quality. It's so slightly annoying..... 'cuz you know it's fake. The most recent one for me was walking into a Lucky's grocery and being blasted at the door with the smell of something baking. Never mind that they probably import most all the baked goods and the bakery dept is all the way at the back of the store so ... how did that smell happen to be, RIGHT THERE, at the front of the store? Another annoying one is going to a place like Applebees., once my parents favorite place to go, so I doubt I'll ever be going there again before their final bankruptcy. The front door is literally at the tippy toppy corner of the building and the kitchen is all the way at the back of the building. It wouldn't make any sense to vent all the ACTUAL kitchen grease and odors to the front of the building when they could just go straight up and out the roof. So it's so fake Yet is smells of .... ribs and potatoes seasoned just right. As fake as the menu pictures are compared to what's ACTUALLY delivered to the table.
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Post# 1180728 , Reply# 39 5/16/2023 at 03:12 (344 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 1180732 , Reply# 40 5/16/2023 at 05:51 (344 days old) by Logixx (Germany) |
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Been only to Sears a handful of times. The one I've been to had many of the washers and dryers plugged in so one could play with the controls. That's something I hadn't seen before in Germany. Unfortunately, the company I work for closed the appliance store and "integrated" it into the main store. The pathetic number of appliances I have left, however, are all plugged in (mostly in demo mode).
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Post# 1180733 , Reply# 41 5/16/2023 at 05:52 (344 days old) by Logixx (Germany) |
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Post# 1180738 , Reply# 42 5/16/2023 at 08:48 (343 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Post# 1180822 , Reply# 45 5/17/2023 at 01:47 (343 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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My paternal grandparents were Sears nuts! He ALWAYS bought craftsman tools and she ordered sears detergents, light bulbs, vacuums, i don't know what all. They always got the catalog in the mail.
I remember the sears store in Florence, Alabama down close to Court Street. It was a large store and i loved going there, especially the appliance section where they had the dishwasher with a clear plastic front so we could see the wash action. My mother says she remembers the colored and white water fountains in that store...before my time. The mall opened in 1978 and sears moved there. The former store became an office for Martin Industries, makers of cast iron, stoves, and gas heaters and fireplaces. | ||
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Post# 1180870 , Reply# 46 5/17/2023 at 20:33 (342 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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"Movie theatre" (car dealership, lol) Popcorn popper.
You could have one in your own home. That smell is alluring, that's for sure.
Personally I used to do the Stir Crazy popper but I O.D.'d on popcorn by accident last year and I just don't want anymore. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK | ||
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Post# 1180874 , Reply# 47 5/17/2023 at 20:48 (342 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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"Amazing that they can still be in business with only 18 stores left." That is what some people are pointing out. And it's not like they are all in one area where it would be easy to service and supply the stores. According to the map above it's like they've deliberately spaced them from one far point to the next. Most are on the coasts or border. There are only 4 in the middle of the country.
I doubt there is much brand trust at this point. Anyone would fear they'd go out of business anytime now. | ||
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Post# 1180898 , Reply# 48 5/18/2023 at 09:18 (341 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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After Christmas Sale | ||
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Post# 1180928 , Reply# 49 5/18/2023 at 22:02 (341 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 1180937 , Reply# 50 5/19/2023 at 07:27 (341 days old) by jmm63 (Denville, NJ) |
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Post# 1182322 , Reply# 51 6/11/2023 at 18:55 (317 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1182422 , Reply# 52 6/12/2023 at 20:35 (316 days old) by Vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Where to begin I have lp records with Sears price tags. I can smell the roasting nuts from the candy department. Allstate insurance counter in the lobby, tires, then road handler radials and aftermarket Mark IV Air conditioning. Gung Ho with the Sears bike. | ||
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Post# 1183719 , Reply# 55 6/29/2023 at 03:01 (300 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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The newspaper ads mostly, everything was branded under their own brand names, and the print was way different from how I'd seen most ads...
We were not Sears people, however... I'd found myself in Montgomery ward way more often and even bought a lot of my own stuff there, even the family Maytag washer of 1992, in almond and an almond Whirlpool dispenser side by side fridge also in almond in a mini 22 cu. ft. so it would ft in our kitchen next to the designer series almond electric range mom bought, a private label proclaiming made by tappan... I loved the small gifts and rewards I'd also get with my wards credit card, too--and had a service contract on my pioneer CD player covering its annual cleaning which worked for twenty years, though when wards folded, so,did getting it cleaned so a Cambridge player replaced it ten years ago, running perfectly so far without needing any service... -- Dave | ||
| Post# 1183931 , Reply# 56 7/1/2023 at 15:48 (297 days old) by Mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
Thanks Bob | ||
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Post# 1183933 , Reply# 57 7/1/2023 at 15:56 (297 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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We lost another one as of June 15th
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Post# 1183934 , Reply# 58 7/1/2023 at 16:01 (297 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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But then there is this from May
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Post# 1183936 , Reply# 59 7/1/2023 at 16:38 (297 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 1183947 , Reply# 60 7/1/2023 at 21:03 (297 days old) by Mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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SO, Still to this today
when Jeff and I remodeled in 2013. Still Have Kenmoe in the Kitchen. NOT the DW...
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| Post# 1183948 , Reply# 61 7/1/2023 at 21:08 (297 days old) by Mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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Truly, there was | ||
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