The Goodwill on Central!
Sunday Cote
Hey Sandra,
I just read your Art, Aging and Spirituality article on your website
where you mention the Goodwill on Central. You wrote:
"In 1970 I lived in Hokona Zia dorm, at UNM. I was 17 whole years old,
and had my mom's old 1952 Singer portable sewing machine. India-print
bedspreads were $4 and $5 each at Gold Street Circus, a hippie shop that
wasn't on Gold Street, but on Central across from Hodgin Hall. (Now it's
the west end of Bike World.) Up Central at Wellesley, where a restaurant
named Kelly's lately opened, there was a Goodwill. It had been a car
dealership way before I was born. You could still tell by the building
where the office, the repair shop, and the showroom had been."
We used to shop at that Goodwill when I was a little girl! I never
knew it had been a car dealership. It's fun to think back and remember
the shop and realize that indeed it did look like a car dealership. I
can still remember the smell! Thinking of that store reminded me that
my mom bought a bike for me there - my first two-wheeler and I loved
that bike. It was probably about 1970 so we might have even crossed
paths! Lots more memories ran into that one, so I just wanted to thank
you for triggering those fond recollections and giving me a bit of
history from my childhood. It's a small world, indeed!
Reminiscing and appreciating,
Sunday
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I just read your Art, Aging and Spirituality article on your website
where you mention the Goodwill on Central. You wrote:
"In 1970 I lived in Hokona Zia dorm, at UNM. I was 17 whole years old,
and had my mom's old 1952 Singer portable sewing machine. India-print
bedspreads were $4 and $5 each at Gold Street Circus, a hippie shop that
wasn't on Gold Street, but on Central across from Hodgin Hall. (Now it's
the west end of Bike World.) Up Central at Wellesley, where a restaurant
named Kelly's lately opened, there was a Goodwill. It had been a car
dealership way before I was born. You could still tell by the building
where the office, the repair shop, and the showroom had been."
We used to shop at that Goodwill when I was a little girl! I never
knew it had been a car dealership. It's fun to think back and remember
the shop and realize that indeed it did look like a car dealership. I
can still remember the smell! Thinking of that store reminded me that
my mom bought a bike for me there - my first two-wheeler and I loved
that bike. It was probably about 1970 so we might have even crossed
paths! Lots more memories ran into that one, so I just wanted to thank
you for triggering those fond recollections and giving me a bit of
history from my childhood. It's a small world, indeed!
Reminiscing and appreciating,
Sunday
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Sandra Dodd
-=-Thinking of that store reminded me that
my mom bought a bike for me there - my first two-wheeler and I loved
that bike. It was probably about 1970 so we might have even crossed
paths! -=-
I remember right where they used to put the bikes!
I'm really glad someone read that who knew the places! It was first
written for Enchanted Famiies, a local publication, so naming places
near UNM made way more sense then than when it's out in the wider
world.
Thanks for that note. It was fun.
Holly sometimes wears a polka-dot dress I bought there for $1 in 1972
or so, and I've copied that pattern several times, from having that
dress. It was just a traditional pattern with a square faced yoke
and the sleeves and body gathered into it. It looks kinda like an
old Wonder Bread bag. <g>
Sandra
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my mom bought a bike for me there - my first two-wheeler and I loved
that bike. It was probably about 1970 so we might have even crossed
paths! -=-
I remember right where they used to put the bikes!
I'm really glad someone read that who knew the places! It was first
written for Enchanted Famiies, a local publication, so naming places
near UNM made way more sense then than when it's out in the wider
world.
Thanks for that note. It was fun.
Holly sometimes wears a polka-dot dress I bought there for $1 in 1972
or so, and I've copied that pattern several times, from having that
dress. It was just a traditional pattern with a square faced yoke
and the sleeves and body gathered into it. It looks kinda like an
old Wonder Bread bag. <g>
Sandra
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