tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post247751035098330024..comments2024-03-29T05:32:54.378-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Remembering the Sears buildingKingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-92210110220863784272017-10-10T13:24:59.866-05:002017-10-10T13:24:59.866-05:00Don't forget the mold.Don't forget the mold. Kingfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-82915357481605506932017-10-10T13:08:44.474-05:002017-10-10T13:08:44.474-05:00I'm pretty certain that, as much as it would c...I'm pretty certain that, as much as it would cost, leveling the building and starting over would be significantly more expensive than properly fixing the existing problems. The structure itself is in no danger of collapse. Some bricks falling does not mean every single exterior wall is going to collapse.<br /><br />All this is the result of gross negligence. The city has done next to nothing to maintain the building. Extremely, almost criminal deferred maintenance is the culprit here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78737069786611637992017-10-10T06:24:09.184-05:002017-10-10T06:24:09.184-05:00My father was merchandise mgr there. Total time at...My father was merchandise mgr there. Total time at Sears 35 or so years. Loved locking up the store on Friday nights. We got to play with everything in there. Raided the candy department. <br />Thomas Townsendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-64854097503346853782017-10-09T20:25:40.820-05:002017-10-09T20:25:40.820-05:00Someone asked when the Sears store became the libr...Someone asked when the Sears store became the library. I'm fairly certain that happened when Mertrocenter opened in 1979...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-40096578477046200162017-10-09T13:58:44.229-05:002017-10-09T13:58:44.229-05:00October 8, 2017 at 12:39 said: "..drawings lo...October 8, 2017 at 12:39 said: "..drawings look like 3rd Reich propaganda."<br /><br />Good Lawd... People dressed up to go shopping back then and they dressed in the style of the time. Advertising then was mostly hand-drawn, too, as high quality photography could be pricey. Like the kids say, SMDH. <br /><br /><br />Messicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-84962168088656596522017-10-09T12:53:05.295-05:002017-10-09T12:53:05.295-05:00Level the dang building, and build an new library....Level the dang building, and build an new library. plan and simple and put up a marker say the was the site of the old Sears. What next we gonna remember the great flood of 79. Alpha Stormnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-55075545205264908172017-10-08T12:39:12.166-05:002017-10-08T12:39:12.166-05:00So those drawings look like 3rd Reich propaganda. ...So those drawings look like 3rd Reich propaganda. It's sad that EW is in such bad shape. It was a nice library 10-15 years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-40649564125941507262017-10-08T08:04:49.921-05:002017-10-08T08:04:49.921-05:00I guess I will cherish this book that I checked ou...I guess I will cherish this book that I checked out over a week ago at Welty. Even in its water damaged state, from the second floor. [Note: The book could have been this way from the last person who was reading this book, but it wasn't far from leaks there.] Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-69251565350511447582017-10-07T21:48:11.071-05:002017-10-07T21:48:11.071-05:00"WOW KINGFISH, I've lived here since 1943..."WOW KINGFISH, I've lived here since 1943 and I can say without hesitation that I have never seen a Black mistreated in any form."<br /><br />Medgar Evers<br /><br /><br />Google much?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-15985970018989649212017-10-07T20:05:55.197-05:002017-10-07T20:05:55.197-05:00@10:37 it probably wasn't an "issue"...@10:37 it probably wasn't an "issue" for you because you weren't the one who didn't have a choice about which fountain to drink from. You would think at this point the idea that segregation was a benign occurrence wouldn't still be an issue. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-56449539523175691012017-10-07T17:12:03.665-05:002017-10-07T17:12:03.665-05:00I remember going to Sears. I was so little, when w...I remember going to Sears. I was so little, when we took the steps down into the lower level, I could barely make it.<br /><br />Another store we frequented, was Miller's on Ellis Ave. One time I needed to take a leak and just decided to go right there in the fishing pole section! My dad told my mom to "handle it" and he disappeared!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-88370200326814783782017-10-07T15:39:19.926-05:002017-10-07T15:39:19.926-05:00And 2:13, what Garden of Eden did you relocate to?...And 2:13, what Garden of Eden did you relocate to? We are not boring and we are not inconsequential. You sound as if you dislike this state. I dont know if you are from here originally or not but don’t categorize many of us in the image you have of us. Your opinion doesn’t matter. On another note, if you dislike us so much why do you troll this site?<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />A Good Ole Jackson, MS resident<br /><br /><br />Oh, by the way, the city name nor can any county name be changed to make any of you SJW’s happy. Stick that in your pipe (or bong or hooka) and smoke it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-79048220810917287182017-10-07T14:13:03.685-05:002017-10-07T14:13:03.685-05:00Topo, you must not be from Mississippi. If you li...Topo, you must not be from Mississippi. If you lived there, you'd realize that people obsess over the most boring and inconsequential things, stubbornly oblivious to all the thrills and possibilities around them.<br /><br />Attacking each other, and arguing over the irrelevant and inane, is how they occupy their minds. This is why people leave Mississippi. And it's why WE left. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-14880405676250994892017-10-07T13:55:30.892-05:002017-10-07T13:55:30.892-05:00I grew up in Jackson in the 50's and 60's....I grew up in Jackson in the 50's and 60's. I remember cutting yards in the summer of 1965 and doing any other job I could do to save money for a 3 speed bicycle. I would be riding it to school that fall. I saved up 40 bucks, which in 1965 was a lot of money for a 12 year old kid. I remember the day that my father took me to that Sears store to buy that 3 speed bike. Rode it to school the next 3 years. Wish I had managed to keep it all of these years. My family shopped at that Sears store for just about everything. I loved growing up in Jackson. A shame the city is what it is now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-48022323212000462842017-10-07T12:10:14.994-05:002017-10-07T12:10:14.994-05:00Topo for the win!Topo for the win!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-66181431814845606642017-10-07T11:26:11.086-05:002017-10-07T11:26:11.086-05:00Sears was located on Capitol Street in the block b...Sears was located on Capitol Street in the block between Lamar and West before it moved to North State.anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301435131754634588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-83862523369423172822017-10-07T04:51:10.913-05:002017-10-07T04:51:10.913-05:00How in hell did a mournful tribute to a fondly-rem...How in hell did a mournful tribute to a fondly-remembered old(ish) public building get re-jiggered and transmogrified into another HUGELY boring, tiresome yammer about race? If I were not a racist before, I would surely become one after reading this Johnny-one-note site for a while. Thank you, commenters who mentioned the Proustian roasted-nut memories, and a pox on you people who felt duty-bound to trot out the "oh, but those awful Colored water fountains!" lament. Yeah, yeah, we know, we know. Lucky for us all, black, white, yellow, pinto, albino, whatever, that we can just buy a plastic bottle of H2O now. Giant leap for mankind. Bye-bye Sears-cum-Welty library...sic transit gloria.Topo Gigionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-12126446732803101342017-10-06T22:37:44.889-05:002017-10-06T22:37:44.889-05:00I also drank from the “colored” water fountain. I ...I also drank from the “colored” water fountain. I asked my mother what was the difference and she said try it and see. I did and there was no difference. There is no question that segregation was wrong but as a child growing up it was not something that was an issue. Yparents taught me to treat people fairly and with respect black or white. I still try to do that today. Unfortunately political correctness has become so involved even simple statements can be twisted as disrespect to some ones sex, race,religion etc. the pendulum has swung but I’m afraid it’s swung to far and we are in a state of severe imbalance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-79362466638439563682017-10-06T22:07:12.726-05:002017-10-06T22:07:12.726-05:00Nothing to purchase. Needs to be torn down. It&#...Nothing to purchase. Needs to be torn down. It's of no use to anyone. Kingfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-42097283379399649032017-10-06T22:05:41.197-05:002017-10-06T22:05:41.197-05:00Let First Baptist Church or the MS Baptist Convent...Let First Baptist Church or the MS Baptist Convention purchase the library.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-30197335906297067692017-10-06T20:28:41.567-05:002017-10-06T20:28:41.567-05:00@6:10 'Bout time to take the next dose of your...@6:10 'Bout time to take the next dose of your schizophrenic medicine. You contradicted yourself. Twice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-24832294975366269472017-10-06T19:01:42.149-05:002017-10-06T19:01:42.149-05:00There were no signs that 'said' 'color...There were no signs that 'said' 'colored only'. There were many that said Colored and White, or White Only. I think the South got that idea from the north. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-86024694285479837232017-10-06T18:54:28.309-05:002017-10-06T18:54:28.309-05:00So....there WAS a Mr. Fondren. Mr. Dave Fondren. So....there WAS a Mr. Fondren. Mr. Dave Fondren. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-35547433431950006122017-10-06T18:10:14.598-05:002017-10-06T18:10:14.598-05:0011:10: You couldn't read. How'd you know ...11:10: You couldn't read. How'd you know what the sign said. Are you saying your Mother was a lowlife, hating, racist White bitch?<br />12:26: Throw your stones, asshole. Why didn't you buy those properties and preserve them like you think they should have been?<br />Burke: You make me want to puke. Back then, you could leave your house unlocked, windows open (most people had no air conditioning), car unlocked. You didn't have to worry about being invaded, robbed, jacked, shot, mugged. The only thing that's changed between now and then is the demographic.<br />Those of us that grew up then have fond memories of the City. Now Jackson is regularly rated in the top 10 for crime in the country.<br />At one time, this was a nice place to live and raise your family. Now, those places are elsewhere. As stated before, the only thing that changed was the demographic. <br />All you guilt ridden whites can kiss my ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-7086124074757722952017-10-06T16:38:35.253-05:002017-10-06T16:38:35.253-05:00Model town. Go hear all about your model town at ...Model town. Go hear all about your model town at the new civil rights museum. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com