Our challenge today was to be inspired by an English Department Store. I grew up in the era of the downtown Department stores which were cities unto themselves. Luncheons on the mezzanine, escalators that carried shoppers up what seemed like miles of floors. Of course, you got dressed up to go shopping. So I can just imagine how chocked to the brim this John Lewis must be! It was the Curtain Call that inspired me to create the heavy pleated drapes that all the movie houses had back in the same day and they were single screens!
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Registered: September 3, 2007 Location: native Texan living in extreme N. GA Posts: 73391
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 5:49 PM
This is fantastic, Susan! I love the theater scene and I would have loved to do the shopping the way you described it. If it were like that, I might actually want to go, lol.
Registered: April 22, 2006 Location: SCS in NC Posts: 20914
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 6:35 PM
I miss these days.. I really really do.. Things were more elegant then.. Time was less rushed.. I can still remember my very first movie.. Great job Susan.
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Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 8:20 PM
Susan this is amazing! I love your thinking and how you arrived here! And I remember going downtown to go shopping - getting all dressed up. I'm from Phila and we would go to Wannamakers, Gimbels, Strawbridge and Clothiers. They all had cafes for lunch - tea sandwiches! I used to go with my mother and grandmother! Thanks for bringing back the memories!!
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Sun, Oct 10, 2010 @ 7:34 PM
Oh I can so relate to all you wrote here. I remember those curtains at the theaters. This is so fabulous. Wow card again. TFS :0)
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Registered: April 19, 2006 Location: Waterford, WI Posts: 20540
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 @ 11:34 AM
Oh Susan, you can't be that old. I can remember those things too. In fact, my dad was a mooch and brought home anything he could mooch. Our local theature must have gotten a new curtain and guess what Dad brought home. You guess it. OUr beds all had new bedspreads. We had curtains dividing the girls from the boys rooms in the attic where we slept and anything and everything that could be made from dark blue velvet...was. Maybe that's why I like Sound of music so well. LOL I absolutely love how you did the ship. You are SO creative!