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Monday, April 8, 2024
I can actually recall ten cent comic books, for sale at Rexall.
You and me both. Rexall was "going to the store" at one chapter in my childhood. A bike ride with buddies to check out the comics, and see what cool cars were in the parking lot.
Back in the 60's, I found the Ballantine paper back pirate edition of "The Lord of the Rings" in a drug store in Codman Sq., Dorchester (Boston) MA. Should have kept it. It must be worth real money now.
My grandmother ran a Rexall, spent lots of time there. Then a Honda motorcycle dealer opened next door & that was the end of comic's & model airplanes for me.
Anybody remember Sages in San Berdoo? Great magazine section. My dad would let me and my sister get a 10 cent comic once a month. He would sometimes buy Argosy.
I used to stuff the model airplanes I made with firecrackers, light the fuse, and blow 'em apart. For a 60s-era 10-year old, it was pretty much Hollywood special effects.
You and me both. Rexall was "going to the store" at one chapter in my childhood. A bike ride with buddies to check out the comics, and see what cool cars were in the parking lot.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 60's, I found the Ballantine paper back pirate edition of "The Lord of the Rings" in a drug store in Codman Sq., Dorchester (Boston) MA. Should have kept it. It must be worth real money now.
ReplyDeleteRexall and Liggett, Madison, Touchton drug stores....read my first Playboy standing in front of the magazine stand at Liggetts in about 1961...
ReplyDeleteFirst Playboy edition was December,
Delete1963, so maybe you are not as old as you thought you were!
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My grandmother ran a Rexall, spent lots of time there. Then a Honda motorcycle dealer opened next door & that was the end of comic's & model airplanes for me.
ReplyDeleteBought them at Duckwalls
ReplyDeleteI was really in to comics in my Chattanoga years, '48 to 52, but for the life of me I can't remember where I got them.
ReplyDeletethe same- Bob Kral's Rexall, Mentor, Ohio.
ReplyDeleteAnybody remember Sages in San Berdoo? Great magazine section. My dad would let me and my sister get a 10 cent comic once a month. He would sometimes buy Argosy.
ReplyDelete^^^I had no idea how hard it was for him to make ends meet.
DeleteYou can sometimes find old comic books - etc - on The Gutenburg Project. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68982
ReplyDeleteI used to stuff the model airplanes I made with firecrackers, light the fuse, and blow 'em apart. For a 60s-era 10-year old, it was pretty much Hollywood special effects.
ReplyDeleteazlibertarian
Comics were 12 cents a pop by the time I started reading them in the early 60s, and no sales tax either.
ReplyDeleteSgt. Rock was a quarter when I was a kid. : (
ReplyDelete10 cent comic books and 25 cent Classic comic books at the local Rexall.
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