Shopping Back In 1960

Shopping is a lot different now then it was back in 1960.I live in Altoona, Pennsylvania, back in 1960 the population was about 60.000 people. There was no shopping centers to go to.When you wanted to go shopping for something like shoes, socks, house hold items and other products we had to go downtown in Altoona,to do our shopping.

All the stores in downtown Altoona was contained on about 10 square city blocks long and about 2 square city blocks wide. Mostly people went shopping on Saturday morning.That was mostly the biggest shopping day of the week.First you drove to downtown in Atoona and tried to find a parking space.In downtown Altoona the road was one way traffic going threw downtown Altoona.You had 2 lanes, going the same way.Also you could park on the left side of the street or the right hand side of the steet.
And they all had the Parkers meters.

As you know all the stores did not have their own parking lots where people could park in their parking lots and shop in their stores.There was a couple of small parking lots,downtown. But those parking lots were Paid parking lots. Mainly these parking lots were for people who worked downtown. And if you wanted to shop downtown you either put money into the parking meter or you paid to park your car in a paid parking lots.Or you could find parking about 5 or 6 blocks away and walk to the stores.

Once you get to your first store and get what you want, then you have to wait to checkout.You stand in line for 10 to 15 minutes and finally you get checked out.
Then you go to the second store and then the next store and repeat this until you are done shopping.And all the time you are shopping from store to store you have to carry all the things you bought and when you go into a store carrying things they had people checking the things you had bought at other stores.Then after your done shopping you did not have a shopping cart to push to your car.You had to carry everything to your car. Once you go to your car you had to check and see if you had got a
ticket from the police because the time on the parking meter may have expired.Then you think to yourself, what a workout just to go shopping.The people had to go shopping downtown and the police loved that.The people would park their cars, put money into the meters and go shopping and hope the time on the parking meter would not expire before they got back.The police had officers walk up and down both sides of the street just waiting for one of the parking meters to expire. And as soon as they did they would slap a parking ticket on the car.It Really was pain in the butt, to shop in Downtown Altoona back in 1960.

Then in 1970 they started making shopping malls.You would go to these shopping malls that contained many stores, that were all under one roof and had plenty of free parking for everyone.Of course back in 1960 all across the United States you all had the little Downtown Altoona shopping nightmares.Now in the shopping malls, you could park your car for free.No more worrying about the parking meter expiring.No more walking a mile to get to the store.You could shop the stores at the mall for what ever you want and take your time.And after you were shopping you could push a shopping cart filled with the things you bought to your car.A better way to shop.Now you go downtown Altoona, there are only a couple of stores there now open.The rest of buildings are vacant.All the parking meters are gone. Nobody goes downtown anymore to shop.Wonder Why.All the buildings are over 100 years old. They should all be torn down period.

Now the newest way of shopping in using the internet.When you shop online you shop from your chair in your home.You don't have to get ready, drive to the store or stores that you want to shop.Find what you want, Check out and come home.Now you can shop for whatever you want, from the comfort of your chair.You can shop from thousands of stores for millions of products.But finding your product on the internet, at the best can be hard to find.Now there is a product that is free to download and free to use.You can make big money giving away our Free shopping APP! My ID number is 10681 This is a Free shopping tool that is amazing.It finds you your product at the best price on the internet or it will find it right where you live at a store near you and at the best price.Try this amazing free shopping tool.You can get this free tool and get your best price on anything you want.

By: porky

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