Does anyone remember......

[Moraff]

When I was a kid there was a grocery store in our neighborhood called Garland Market, it was right across the street from Finch elementary school.
The place was run by a guy and his wife, George and Margaret. George perpetually had a half smoked cigar in his mouth.
Some of their customers ran a "credit slip" and only paid once a month. The only other place that I know of that let people run a credit slip was River Ridge Hardware, which coincidently now occupies the old Garland Market space.

[peecekeeper]

When I was a kid, the closest store was over a mile away and they did not want kids in it - seems kids were thought of as shoplifters. The store was really small, so it didn't take long to see everything they had. They had penny candy near the front door and would allow kids to go that far. Any place else was off limits. It seems just the opposite of what you would expect - I grew up in a small country town you would think would be more apt to run credit or work with the community. You would think Spokane would have been that way...

[Moraff]

I was thinking back and remembered a couple other long gone Spokane businesses.
Low Cost Foods, and The Panda Restaurant.

Low Cost, at least the one I remember was located on Garland next to where the post office is. I and the spouse were discussing this and it seems the post office was not always at it's current location, but down by North Central, so now the inevitable question....what was located where the post office is when Low Cost was still there?


The Panda was a drive in much like Dick's on Third and Division.

[greyno3]

The Post office a was a dirt lot where we used to ride motorcycles.

[Moraff]

Thanks for the info greyno3, I guess I must be a victim of old age and creeping senility:)

[drumbo]

we came to Medical lake when I started 4th grade...what a puke hole. there was a few little stores there Ralph's drug store downtown & Snodes Candy store...by the elementary school...Mr Ralphs was probably a pedophile but i did the knuckle sandwich hanshake on him once and put him to his knees!!! I was a "hood" destined for small pens and cells and at best military school.... took a drumset and some understanding parents to eventually get me to clean up...sort of heh heh...as my mom says the whole neighborhood would come over to hear me play drums and smoke pot!!

I moved to Spokee-town in 78-79...on Driscoll blvd there was a little store it was a few different names...i think it was on longfellow or the next one down...i lived on heroy at about g st... but i remember the store up on central??? forget the name, west of the one ways...some friends of mine were bag boys there...used to shop there without paying if you know what i mean...plus a few times if you had the balls you could walk in, get beer take it up to the register and they'd sell it to ya!!!! 16 or 17 yrs old i musta looked old enough???

[Moraff]

The store on Driscoll to which you refer started out as a Texaco station, I think it was called Kenney's Service or some thing like that.
It was owned by a guy named Don Kenney.
My old man never had his rigs worked on anywhere else.
Later on it became a Pop Shop store and then the C street store.

Oh yeah, remember the old WWP(Washington Water Power) substation across the street?
After they closed it they sold it and now it's a house.

[Moraff]

Thadius T. Thudpucker's Restaurant and lounge Corner of Brown and it was either Riverside or Sprague.

[greyno3]

i remember walking into a gay ar down by the old street barn..i hate disco