I watched a British comedy this evening called "Are You being Served?" It takes place in a very old style department store somewhere in England and, in some ways, reminds me of Wolf & Dessauer's. I was talking with a friend who moved here a few years ago, but long after the end of W&D's. We were talking about the big Santa Claus on display downtown and I was describing how it used to hang on the side of W&D's and that led to a description of the store. When I was a young teen shopping in downtown Fort Wayne was a twice a year treat. Spring and fall my mother and I would dress up and drive to Fort Wayne from little old Woodburn to shop. In the fall it might be school clothes and shoes, in the spring an Easter hat and maybe a new dress in the color of that year. We were never in a position to spend much money but we did have fun. Just riding the escalator and elevator was exciting. I especially liked the elevators. There was a speaker system that said things like "Fifth floor, women's lingerie. Third floor, men's better suits." and so on. You get the idea. The new elevator recently installed in my apartment building reminds me a little of those old elevators. It doesn't give a list of who lives on each floor (probably just as well) but it does announce tmy floor number in a perky feminine voice. I might have preferred a sexy man's voice but nobody asked me.
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