Times Store on King Street

[Peasie]

Who remembers shopping at Times Store on King Street? I loved that store when I was a school girl. I seem to remember a Bata shoe store nearby where Daddy would insist on buying those ugly and indestructible Clarks shoes.

I know I am aging myself here.

[CeaBee]

the leather hard...the suede saff

everybody haffi ask me where me get mi clarks




No. never been there.

[Peasie]

Clarks shoes at girls high school in Kingston in the 1970s deemed you as the studious, sooo-uncool, sort. Not good memories

[Gen]

xmas was nice to walk up and down the plaza, and see what kind of trinkets were on sale.

parents only did that with us once. a guess dem couldnt tek the crowd

i remember the Bata store


a juss the other day mi a seh this pickney lucky a nuh the tuff bata shoes dem she haffi wear guh school. back then my school shoes last the whole year, and if mi foot never grow too much, it guh into the next school year as well

#memories

[RichD]

Who remembers shopping at Times Store on King Street? I loved that store when I was a school girl. I seem to remember a Bata shoe store nearby where Daddy would insist on buying those ugly and indestructible Clarks shoes.

I know I am aging myself here.

i have heard my elders talk of such a place...they used to come in for the country to shop there. used to have a nice toy selection i hear and some kind of soda fountain

[kia027]

dont remember it but do remember the bata store & shoes... and a later time period .. Used to get the roach stompers tough shoes that if mi neva outgrow could prolly still wear today

[MsExced]

My mom aunt did work in the Times Store but I don't remember but bata I think that's where most kids got their school from

[Peasie]

For some reason, Daddy felt we were safer in Times Store than on the Plazas. There was only one big department store with one entrance. He gave the door guard (gyaadie) some money to keep an eye on the six of us and to "mek sure di baby stay wid Peasie." Plus half of di sales people knew mi fadda and therefore kept an eye on us.

Once Daddy left, we went straight to the soda fountain and ordered grill cheese and ginger ale - delectable luxuries! Then we split up in groups of two, meet up, change up who to shop with whom (depending on whose Christmas present we were shopping for). We always end up in the books section. I remember the Hans Christian Fairy Tales book mi buy fi mi likkle sisters. As my brother got older, he would buy one-present-for-the-entire-family and spend his money on matchbox cars.

#memoriesofkingstreet

[Leddih]

For me, King Street was about one pair of school shoes, khaki and other school apparel at Nathan's, Issa's and Hanna's. Times Store was for books and also for toys if I had my own money. It was also the Santa Claus store.

[Peasie]

Yes, Santa Claus

Remember when RJR would broadcast Santa's arrival at Palisados from the North Pole?

[Leddih]

...and the float parade. I don't think my parents ever suspected that I was more interested in seeing the beauty contestants than Santa Claus.