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Shopping at Levinsons in the dark ages







One of my earliest memories is shopping in mid-fall at Levinsons Department Store, when I was four years old. We lived on an old farm out Buelah road, about halfway between Nanty Glo and Ebensburg, at the time. We had moved there from Vintondale, and stayed there only one year before moving to the house in Blacklick Township, on Red Mill Road near Belsano, where I grew up.

I know it was fall because it had gotten dark early, and Levinsons seemed dim inside, lit by large naked lightbulbs suspended from the ceiling. I was fascinated by the fact that they wrapped all purchases in brown paper (rather than put them in bags), and they had huge spools of string above the cashier's station, which they pulled and wrapped and tied around the paper. That memory has always struck me as somewhat medieval—belonging to an earlier "darker" age...the 1940s.


—Jon Kennedy

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