Re(5): Tell Us Again About Shoppiing In Stores, Grandpa Posted on September 29, 2023 at 01:00:22 PM by The Wolfman
I forgot to mention... the stores being closed down are stores located in the ghettos where unemployment is high and morality is low.
Kansas City's always been mindful of the demographics of sites where they add stores. In the 60s when I was commuting fm college to KC every weekend and christmases to put myself through school, I worked at Spartans, one right behind Entercom and the other on Hwy 50 on the Missouri side. We still had Missouri blue laws then so Sundays in MIssion Spartans was always crowded with Missourians. I was good friends with our floorwalker who spent her days on a ladder in the back with her binoculars, catching shoplifters. A retired cop. Bragged she could spot the profiles walking in the front door. When you say the CITIES are going to hell, that's only because of the customer demographics and economics of the area. KC's been one of the most segregated cities in the country tho I've noticed thats changing in parts of JOCO and th Northland.
Sad but true. Keep in mind how many absentee ghetto dads were/are serving time, earning no income for their children. This was generally before selling drugs was a primary income for poor families. A lot of things changed in abt 1965. There were the Watts riots in LA and the big cities incl KC. Lotta kids with criminal dads were raised by gangs; its all about the lack of cohesive families and exhausted moms raising boys alone. That summer I sold ice cream between 15th and 31st, fm Cleveland to Van Brunt. I gave away so much ice cream to kids who didn't have a dime that neighborhood people protected me from holdups from the gangs. I learned a lot when turned 18..coincidentally I also learned all the Motown songs that year that WHB never played. 4Tops, Temptations, et al. East of Troost had its own radio station and it wasn't what I listened to over in white flight JOCO.
Does 'Oldies95/Greatest Hits' play Marley? I bet not!
That actually helped me when I was later working American Forces Radio overseas. I knew the music genre for a mixed group of soldiers...the draft boards were colorblind when it came to duty in Asia.
If you didn't know about that, well think of the difference between who Ed Sullivan had on TV when we boomes were kids, and who is now on The Voice!
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