Shoppers World caused everyone to begin to whisper that it was the end of downtown Framingham. It was truly the end of the downtown as we knew it, because everyone went downtown for every need. The stores I can recall were Brockleman's Grocery, Salls Travel, Fitts insurance, Miller's , New York Store, Lemchen's, J. C. Penny, Woolworth, Perlmutter, Paul's Bakery, Gilchrest, Newbury's, The Crown restaurant and The Wellworth restaurant, Sportswear, three bowling allies, three theaters there were more merchants, but I need a boost from those that remember.
Shoppers World did not kill the downtown immediately, there was one big reason, not everyone had a car yet. It took about 20 years before the downtown really changed, the theaters closed, The Hollis Theater, The Gorman, and The St George theater. IF you read my book, you will learn that there were people afraid to drive, and eventually afraid to fly when commercial air travel was introduced and so many more things you can never imagine from the point of view of the future we now inhabit.
Drop back in time, see a world that has disappeared into the past.
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