Tyb
"You are ready"?
I think I know what Q meant by that now..
That WE are going to get pummeled with stupidity from the sheeple and it is up to us to wake them up peacefully.. as possible.. somehow.. at least forcefully enough to keep them from burning our cities down.
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Was digging thru old RAVEN Tape drives and found this footage (attached).
And Wow.. Damn near forgot about making this recording.
Also, I found some footage of it (just now) from the local News off YT and added it to the end of mine.
Ya know.. Kinda hard to watch this and not compare it to 9/11.
Reading the comment section on the below page brought back many memories I did not even know I had from my childhood.
RIKES Christmas stands out when little and later, with friends, we'd ride our 10 speed bikes downtown, take the elevator to the top, and race to the bottom, repeat.. The guard rails were just high enough that YOU COULD slip under on a wipe out and plummet to your death. It made it funner.
Such is our time as mortals :D
Some History..
http://www.thedepartmentstoremuseum.org/2010/05/rike-kumler-co-dayton-ohio.html
I'm rambling..
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From late 1950s through early 1970s I went with my family every year for Christmas shopping - to view the corner window, to see Santa (in the earlier years anyhow), shop in Tyke's, watch the puppet shows, and (my favorite) see the toy train display. The store was always packed, with lines waiting to ride the escalators. It was always a special part of the holiday season. Seldom did I get there any other times, living over an our away, but I will always have indelible memories of that place. I moved away out-of-state after college, and the next thing I heard about it was the demolition of the building. How sad. Malls, big box stores and on-line shopping are no comparison.
Anonymous28 February, 2016 20:15
From late 1950s through early 1970s I went with my family every year for Christmas shopping - to view the corner window, to see Santa (in the earlier years anyhow), shop in Tyke's, watch the puppet shows, and (my favorite) see the toy train display. The store was always packed, with lines waiting to ride the escalators. It was always a special part of the holiday season. Seldom did I get there any other times, living over an our away, but I will always have indelible memories of that place. I moved away out-of-state after college, and the next thing I heard about it was the demolition of the building. How sad. Malls, big box stores and on-line shopping are no comparison.
Anonymous28 March, 2016 12:28
My mother recalled exiting Rikes (perhaps it was called something else then, I don't know) with her mother and seeing a policeman bringing their horse and buggy back to them. She said that Old Bill must have chewed his strap.
At 59 now I fondly remember Rikes for its wonderful Christmas display windows, for the smell of roasted nuts when you'd walk inside and for its wonderful sloppy joes served up on the mezzanine.
Best of all, just before Christmas my mother and I would take the West Milton Bus into Dayton and there would be that wonderful train set up and running up on the toy floor. My mother would always try to get me to look at the dolls not far away but these paled by comparison with that wonderful train that would meander over hills and through tunnels.
The PBS show on Selfridge's Department Store in England has brought this all back to mind.
Nancy J. Studebaker Berns
BAK28 March, 2016 12:36
A great store, beloved and missed like your note. I got to know Rike's when my brother lived in Dayton.
-Bruce
Sinister..