J.J. NEWBERRY - Life in America
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I grew up shopping at Newberry’s, I miss those days. I won’t step foot in Walmart, I’ll pay more to avoid that circus.
Thank you! I feel the same way!
I can still remember where every item was located in the store in my small town in Pennsylvania. Would stop after school for a cherry coke at the lunch counter. Ahhhhhh, the good old days.
Somerset?
Same, shopped at both Newberry's and Woolworth's, within a 15 second walk of each other, Main Street PA.
@@KennyRider137 Kennett Square, PA
Ahhhh😊 Indeed. A 50’s born man I am from Baltimore. Don’t recall a Newberry’s but, certainly remember that era with great fondness. Even our little drug store in town had a “soda fountain”. Always a treat.
Ok, what isle has the Jean Nate'
I miss Newberrys and Woolworths. Can you believe the size of that lunch counter? That was the best part if the store. Indeed, the best quick food around, and fresh cooked. Way better than McDonalds ever was, certainly not now. Everybody stopped in to get a breakfast or quick lunch.., Candid Camera was always doing stunts at the lunch counters. Five-and-dime stores back then always had a certain scent when you walked in, and it was a treat every time.
I do too! We had a Woolworth’s in Fremont California. Loved their hotdogs.
K. H. - The five and dime store I went to, in the early 1960s
had a very large pile of rabbit's feet on a table; I DIDN'T KNOW then, these were the real thing, I was a little kid then,
thinking they were some kind of ornament. There were 2 sizes ( obviously) 10 cent size, and the bigger 25 cent size.
Many different colors, I reached in, grabbed a big handful of
them, and slowly drop them back on the table - blue, brown,
gold and silver, all with key chains on them. I picked out a small one, and a big green one, I hardly remember that store;
Twice, in downtown L.A., we went to an Automat place, you
get change , take a tray and open the little windows once you
put a coin in for desserts or sandwiches ...
I miss the intimacy of the smaller retail stores. Now with Walmart it's like walking inside a roof covered city.
Yup I agree 100%! Looks like a aircraft hanger
I am with you
Absolutely!
And as BIG as one!
I agree with @freedom forever ... going to the Walmart is like going into a roof-covered city. A few years back I saw a vid of a young guy who "lived" in a Walmart ... it was so big he could find a hiding place, inside a cabinet, under a counter, among the yardage, whatever, and sleep. He'd eat at the built-in McDonalds, watch the TVs, use the rest rooms, etc.
Newberry’s, Paramus, NJ. Great memories of shopping with mom as a child.
OMGoosh, what great memories I have shopping & having lunch at Newberry's with my mother in Southern California back in the 50's & 60's. Also at Woolworths. Good Times With MoM 💖
I remember j.j.newberrys we had one in glendora California and Woolworths in azusa ca newberrys was on the corner of alosta and glendora ave Woolworths was on alosta and citrus
@@billchambersmarquez1964 I used to go to that very same Newberry's with my grandparents in the early 1960s. Glendora Ave was called Michigan Ave back then. They also shopped at Mayflower Market on Grand Ave. When I moved into town in 1983, Newberry's was long-gone from that location and Mayflower Market had shrunk down to a tiny unit. I thought all Newberry's had closed by that time, but they lasted longer than I thought.
@@BakedRBeans I remember Mayflower market say was the grocery store next to the newberrys shopping bag or was it market basket? I lived on the corner of glendora ave and alosta there was a gulf gas station next to us and glendora community hospital was behind us the shell station was across the street from us and we could see norm king dodge from my house!
BTW did you go to Roosevelt elementary or Gordon elementary on mauna Loa ave?
@@billchambersmarquez1964 Neither one. My family lived in Monrovia.
We had Newberry's in Milpitas, CA. Great childhood memories!!!!!!
Narrator nailed it when he mentioned go in shopping with mom and being lucky To stop at the lunch counter. Brought back so many more memories I'm doing just that Newbury's In the early 1,970s. Thanks for the video!
Our local Newberry store in Hicksville, NY was the place that I went to as a kid to get plastic, glue-together model airplanes discounted from list price.
I have fond childhood memories of shopping at Newberry’s.
I remember shopping at the one in SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA. at the 3rd street promenade ! Nice Memories
Those stairs bring back memories 😢
I grew up going to JJ Newberry’s in Compton, California with my mom and siblings! We would mainly go there for yarn or thread for her new cross stitch and crochet projects! Thank you for making a video about this place! I wish I could go back!
We had one in glendora California
I shopped there with my grandmother🥰😊 I miss her. Rosecrans and central the good ole days
We used to go to the one on Long Beach Blvd in Compton, next to Sears. I got my first Star Wars figures there in 1978..oh the memories.
Miss the good 😊 old days! Loved these stores and my memories
Many years ago, my town had a Newberry's store that had a mynah bird that was supposed greet customers as they came it. The bird lost it's job when junior high kids taught it to swear at the customers instead.
YUP!!!," uncle joe" always said" the bird gives the place CLASS" it would always say "GOING UP, GOING UP" as it hung out in the elevator that did not work( it gave the place class too) , as did the wall phone that did not work either( not connected)!!!!
LOL that’s funny. Leave it to a mynah bird! Hahaha
I remember how my mom and I would go into the store and the first thing you would encounter is the smell of coffee brewing in their coffee shop. Lovely memories.
I so remember Newberry on Story Rd. in San Jose, California, my old childhood stomping grounds. The go to store back in the good old days. Unlike today the world is full of chaos and germs
My Mom worked at Newberrys in the West Roads Shopping Center in Brentwood, Mo. for years during the 50s & 60s!
Saw my last Newberrys in Muskogee OK. in the 80s.
My first job was at Newberrys in 1986. Good memories of a simpler time.
We had a J.J.Newberry's in Long Branch N.J.My favorite store back then.
Remember it well in Dover NJ. Would go in with Mom and then have lunch at the counter. Nice memories.
I used to buy small bottles of Evening In Paris perfume at Newberrys, my 1st pair of earrings, fabric, my red winter coat in 1971. 😁
My mom loved her job at Newberry's in tje 1960s and 70s. She ran the linen dept. There was a terrific cafeteria there that was quite affordable. As a teen,, I spent most of my allowance on fabric and patterns and appreciated my mom's employee discount!
loved jj newberry we had one in the small town here in Maine
Where was this? My great uncle was the manager of the J.J. Newberry store on water St. in Eastport Maine.
@@woxyroxme Wow in Eastport my aunt Betty wright worked there.
I remember during kite flying season, I would get my kite's at Newberry's. Those were the days.
I loved the last days of JJ new Berry's store they a variety of my leopard prints with floral design pajamas and house dresses,gowns. My my my
I remember buying my mom a birthday gift as a little kid at the Newberry's on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
I worked at 3 different JJ Newberrys , age 16 Hollywood Blvd ,(a very distinct Art-Deco architecture of front of building, is still there today 👍) and it was right next to the BIG pink 1st Frederick's of Hollywood store,🤣 Lots of makeup was bought from that store!! Then I moved to the JJ on Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood (managed that store and then move to San Diego one, and was manager there too, years 1978 -1981 That was the start of my retail career over 35 years🥰 I wish I had that iconic door sign at the entrance of the stores💕
Thank you for the wonderful memories🥰
I can't say I've ever even heard of this place, but any store with a lunchcounter is alright in my book.
I miss the five and dime stores of that era. Newberry's, McRory's Woolworth, Ben Franklin, and there were even a few independent five and dimes as well.
The lunch counters, I feel, were the actual attraction. Good (though fairly simple) fare at a reasonable price. Burgers, sandwiches, chili, soup - stuff like that. Pie and ice cream and cake for desert. I remember a burger, a coke, and fries would only set me back about $2... and it would actually fill me up. Tasty, too.
I know, time marches on, and all good things and stuff... but I really feel we've lost something when these stores vanished. Today's 'dollar stores' just aren't the same thing.
These stores were a Northeast thing. Good prices and good selection of merchandise, but old school places like these can't compete anymore. Sad.
@@scdevon All over California also!
In my hometown, Baton Rouge, LA, we had (during the heyday of the Five-and-Dime era) McCrory's, SS Kresge, SH Kress, TG&Y, Woolworth's and Morgan-Lindsey; JJ Newberry Co. (far as I know) never established in Louisiana.
I really like and appreciate, from the old photographs featured, how immaculately neat and orderly the merchandise was laid out.
Now days, if you walk into a Dollar Store, a Walmart or even Target, it looks like a disaster area; like the aftermath of a Category Five hurricane!
I truly miss the era of the Downtown Five and Dime; and at 68 I am thankful to have been part of it before it's demise.
As RR's stellar videos remind us, the USA has lost so much that made us great.
Had lunch all the time there. Miss Newberrys.
My family used to go to Newberry's shop and go to the ice cream, soda shop. Seems like a dream world long, long ago.
Portsmouth New Hampshire! Saturday morning fun. We would ride our bikes to JJ, pick up some cheap toys or gold fish and make a week of adventure then do it all over again the next Saturday
My mom and her sister both worked in a JJ Newberry in RI, the store was still open when I was a teenager, I remember buying shoes for my older sisters boys in Newberry when they were toddlers.
My mom loved to go there for fabric, and I would go because they had a great toy section
My mom knew all the places to buy fabric, too. She made all of our Sunday School outfits, jackets, my sister's dresses, and Halloween costumes! Ah, how HANDY the moms of yesteryear were !
I remember Western Auto . It was a neat small store .
Growing up in the 1950's I remember JJ Newberry's store shopping with my Mom!
I'm showing my age, I remember shopping with my Mom and Sisters.
An Era gone. I miss those times. ❤
We shopped at Newberrys at Winston Plaza, Melrose Park, IL, in the 1950’s and 60’s
In the early '60s, in my small town in the San Fernando Valley, we shopped at Newberry's a LOT. We didn't have Woolworth or Kreske's (sp?). It was a new development (done in 1956), and all the stores were new.
J.J. Newberry was before my time. I do remember a store owned by the Kress Co. called "Newberry's". Same chain, new owners? The "K" in Kmart stood for Kress, btw. I loved being taken to Newberry's when I was a kid. Woolworth too.
I had a three LP recording produced by Newberry's which contained JJ Newberry speaking at the Ribbon cutting of his first store.
We had a J.J. Newberry in our Maine town,I liked going there, Cheap toys I could buy,My Aunt worked at the lunch counter,She would give me a free sandwich or a drink.
In front of Newberry is where us kids would meet to make plans or just gather there,that place closed up a long time ago,it was sad to see it go
My dad bought me a chrome snub nose cap gun there around 1975..it was the one that used the red tape of caps..that store reminded me of Woolworths...remember when you walked in you could smell the popcorn and there was people sitting at the soda fountain...the Corp owned companies should bring back soda fountains and stores like J.J. Newburys and Woolworths...I really miss all those simple good times.....your channel is so good thank you for creating such a great walk down memory lane!!
These stores were sailing in stormy waters in the decades 1970 - 80, when they faced big competitors. But what sank them was on-line shopping that came about at the turn of the century. Just imagine, these were retailers of quality products made in the US and now we have none of that but shonky products delivered by mail and made overseas.
The toy gun was probably made by Hubley in Lancaster, PA. I used to eat at the lunch counter at HL Green's there which also belonged to the McCrory Corporation.
Aahhhh, the good ol’ days👧🏾
Great stuff your channel is GOLD I love going down memory lane!
Agree; it's such a pleasure.
I remember J.J.Newberry Co.,and S.S.Kresge Co.,F.W.Woolworth Co.,and Neisner's 5 &10 Stores in the Detroit, Michigan area.
I have been in all 4 of the 5&10 Stores ,back in the day.
I used to go to the one in Medford, Oregon as a kid in the 70's. That's where I used to buy Tyco HO scale trains and AFX slot cars! Then have lunch with my mom and grandma.
Loved Newberrys when I was a child..............just some odd change bought me so many treasures.....especially at Christmas!My memory does mix up Newberrys and Woolworths!
The store in downtown New Phila,Oh. sticks in my memory because it had the old wooden floors that creeked under the weight of my 9 year old body and smelled of cedar wood ! Occasionally someone would be smoking a pipe filled with black cherry or applejack tobacco to add to the sensory experience!
My mom was a working mom. But most Saturdays, when I was a little girl, we would go to Newberry's for lunch at the counter and later a movie. I ALWAYS ordered a BBQ beef sandwich and a red jello, cut in little squares and served in a sundae glass. Nice memory.
I remember the J.J. Newberry store in a small town not too far from me in eastern Pennsylvania. The management of the store kept the place very clean and neat as compared to a close-by Woolworth's. Three cheers for the good old 5 & Dime stores of the 20th century. I'm currently living near Stroudsburg, PA., gotta find out where the 1st JJ Newberry was located and if that original building is still standing.
6th and Main St! The custom entrance tile bearing the name was still there, last I remember. Lots of beautiful old buildings still exist in Stroudsburg, especially the homes on Sara and Thomas streets. Enjoy your stroll, neighbor!
Had newberrys in Portland Maine growing up
Here in Australia the larger stores had cafeterias but they’ve all gone by the wayside now
Such happy memories of the lovely smells drifting across the store and the sound of plates and cups being rattled
Wish, at least some places would bring them back
IKEA has the lunch counter tradition. Their Swedish meatballs are legendary.
K-Mart had them. So did Rose's a chain in the southeastern US.
It's funny you mention the SOUND coming from the lunch counters, the glasses rattling, the silverware, I had TOTALLY forgotten about it until you mention it, and total flashback !
We had a Newberry's in my home town in California. It had a buffet restaurant next door called, the Holland House. That was a usual after church stop before going shopping at Newberry's and then to the grocery store next to Newberry's.
Ours was on the corner of alosta and glendora ave in glendora California miss that store
Now its an albertsons supermarket
I remember walking in to a Woolworths or Newberrys store and I could afford almost anything in the store. You might not be wealthy but you did have a sense of having some buying power. Nowadays to get that feeling I go to Dollar Tree where the sky's the limit.
isn't that the truth.
Got one of my first CD players at Woolworth's.
My town had a Newberry's and a McCrory's across the street from each other
I browsed many times at the original Main St., Stroudsburg location with my mother when I was young. I believe the custom entrance tile with his name still remains at the location. We would park the car at the fancy new spiral parking garage at Sears, and after shopping at Newberry's, we'd head down the street and around the corner to Wycoff's, because they had a bit of a nicer menu at their luncheonette counter. I miss those days, especially when my grandmother was with us.
I was one of the last customers at the last Newberrys in Portland, Oregon. It was very sad. Grandma took us there many times as we were growing up.
Was that in Lloyd Center?
@@gillboardman8998 Yes, it was!!
@@alandickerson3379 I grew up right down Broadway. Moved there the day after Lloyd Center opened in 1960. Prolly passed each other in the aisles way back when. 😁 Moved away years ago but visited the folks often enough to drive by and see Lloyd Center slowly dying. I hear it closed completely now.
@@gillboardman8998 We probably passed by each other! Lloyd Center closed temporarily on August 6 due to an electrical fire. It has mostly reopened, but with far fewer stores than we remember from the past.
@@gillboardman8998 On the news this morning it was announced Lloyd Center has been foreclosed. The debt holders apparently plan on leveling Lloyd Center and replacing it with residential and small businesses. So, I guess it is all over now.
We had one here in East Brunswick NJ AT .The Mid State mall. GREAT MEMORIES.
My husband worked at Brunswick Acura many years ago.
@@samanthab1923 The Acura dealership is still there .
Chris Wright Is it? We live in PA now. So I got my last car at Bridgewater Acura.
@@samanthab1923 The one I'm talking is on rt 18 East Brunswick. Maybe I goofed. It's been there and still operating, opening in the 90s.
Chris Wright Yes, that's it. Near the Diner.
I had almost completely forgotten them, your video was a nice reminder. I am from Port Huron, Michigan and yes we had a small J.J. Newberry store that was nested between Montgomery Ward's and Woolworth's that I remember as a child. It's been so long now that it seems like ancient history. And across the corner on the same side of the street was you guessed it, S.S. Kresge.
THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO
I remember Newberry's as the go-to place for Halloween costumes as a kid, though my mom and grandma shopped there for many things. The prices were low and the quality better than the Asian, especially Chinese, junk of today. The stores were smaller than Walmart and nicer than 99 Cent or Dollar Store. As a kid they gave you a little sense of adventure. I do miss them.
That was great, I recall the newberrys in Hackettstown NJ as a kid the only Dept store in town
I recall a lot of what we got and needed came from there, we had no way to go elsewhere, if it wasn’t walking distance🤔🤔🤔
We almost moved to Panther Valley in 1969. Is the building still there?
I remember the Newberry's in downtown Atlanta and the excitement of the Five and Dimes! When they all left in the 70's and 80's - due to high crime, there was little reason to go downtown. They were a great place to go!
I remember my dad buying a riding mower at JJ Newberry's.
This brought back a lot of childhood memories of going to Newberry's in Fall River, Massachusetts. There was also a Woolworth's and a Kresge's.
We had one in westfield til 1986s fire.
I remember well the TV commercials that would list JJ Newberry's as one of the places you could find whatever as seen on TV item they were plugging, although I don't ever remember actually going to one as a kid growing up in the SF Bay Area!
Very similar to Woolworths and WT Grants.
We had 4 of those stores in our small city, when downtown shopping life was where it was at.
I remember Newberrys well when I was a kid growing up in Southern California. The store near us was clean, tidy, and very well run. Next door was their restaurant with a big picture window. My mom went there at least twice per week mainly for fabric. They also sold pets, where we got our dachshund in the mid 1980s. By 1990, however, it went downhill and was never the same.
Do you remember the baby chick's that were dyed different colors for Easter?
@@susandemetry7158 can’t say I do!! I grew up in the 70s/80s
The newberrys we had in glendora California didn't sell pets
Waaay back when I was a kid (1960s) my Grandmother and I would have lunch at the coffee counter inside Newberry's which was located on Main Street in the 91801! Have no Idea what is there now, as it has been a while.
JJ newberries one of the few places you could go have lunch a banana split buy a gerbil or a fish get a few yards of fabric some clothes of record album All for under $10 lol!
Used to have a Newberry's near my house. It was fun to wander in and pick up whatever hit my fancy. And now it's a Rite-Aid, which was never a tenth as good as Newberry's.
When America Was America
We used to have one in Tarrytown at Tarry Plaza,but it closed in early 1960s. It became a Rexall Drug Store.
I went to Marymount in the 70's
my mom worked at the cincinnati store( downtown), in 1950 until she married in 1954, she also told me that she hated "ROUDOLF THE REDNOSED REINDEER" because they would play it over and over, during the christmas season!!!!
I remember the weekends of going to the city with my parents, into a five and dime, or a department store. There was a candy counter, and upstairs, (we rode the elevator, or used the escalator for fun) there was a long cafeteria area where we would sit on the twirling counter stools, and buy a 10 cent coke. Town was busy yet clean, safe, and we could window shop while waiting for Dad....I love how this show brings back so many memories. All good!
I would go there when I was younger with my family.
My mother used to shop there in paramus, NJ.
The name J.J. Newberry sounds familiar but I don't recall ever seeing or being in one.
Same here. But then I saw the aqua color background for their "newer" signage, and immediately remembered where one used to be near me. Closed around 1980, but the aqua was still there until a few years ago.
There was one in the mall I go to.
In my neighborhood in suburban San Diego, we had a pretty large Newberry store that opened in 1961, Mission Valley Center, a regional mall that also opened in 1961, had an even larger two level Newberry with a Holland House cafeteria. As a kid, it seemed that they had almost everything. The store in my neighborhood, Pacific Beach, had the most massive rooftop neon sign that I had ever seen. I was quite young when they opened, but apparently the sign was so bright that the community hated it and demanded that it be dimmed. They did, the sign survived until the mid 70s when it was removed after having an electrical fire.
I grew up in the East suburbs of Cleveland, we had a JJ Newberry's and I love to go into the record department, I believe it was run by another company that leased the space it was called Record Den, the store overall was great.
Two floors, Wow !
My Mom shopped at Newberry's, though not very often. There were two I remember. One at the College Grove shopping center, the other at the Mission Valley shopping center here in San Diego, California.
I worked at Newberrys in a small town in Oregon in the mid eighties until they closed down in the late 80s…what great memories as a child in the 50s and 60s and while I worked there in the 80s. Love your channel!
I missed the old time honestly. I love your channel also
Our J.J. Newberry's closed in 1966 in Tarrytown to make way for Finast to expand their store in the Bridge Plaza Shopping Center.
Thanks for posting! My small town in Vermont had a Newberry's. It did have a downstairs (maybe clothing?), a toy section, and I seem to think it had a lunch counter in the back when I was *very* young. So many late-August shopping trips trying on shoes and my mom mashing her thumb down on my big toe going, "Where's your toe?" By junior high school, my friends and I were blowing our money on records, candy, and Star Wars merch. I don't remember when it closed down, but many memories linger.
Our store in Porterville, CA was older, with ancient hardwood floors and those old open counter displays. I don't recall much other than the great toy section, and it was gone in the early '70s. It had no lunch counter and not as much square footage as you find in a 'modern' store, nor many frills or flashiness. It was a favorite of my Mothers, and when we made trips to Visalia, which had a mall and a greater variety of stores, we always frequented a Newberrys there. It had a lunch counter, but the layout was typical of any new retail store. I still liked it, but it lost a lot of charm. That old store felt like walking back a bit in time! The only other store I felt that way in was our old Woolworth, it still used the overhead basket system to move papers back and forth to the clerks that had little balcony perches. It got moved to a shiny new location and after the late 60's they all looked the same. I would love to walk back into one of those old stores again.
Quite frankly I don't remember ever seeing a J. J. Newberry where I lived, but this is a fascinating video.
In Holland where I live were also Stores like these:
'Vroom & Dreesman' in almost every City.
Unfortunately they are closed a few Years ago too.
We never had Newberrys in Canada but we did have Woolworths and SS Kressages and Woolco Depart stores along with Bi Way .
Growing up in Superior, Wisconsin in the 1960s we had a Newberry 5 and Dime. I remember eating at the lunch counter and looking across the street at the movie marquee with Dr No. My mother wouldn't let me see a James Bond movie until I was 15.
That lunch counter blows away the Kmart Kafeteria.
I can remember going to the store in Alma Michigan with my cousin Ross when wee were little and we opened up every display package for decoration person under their store trees😊santa define naughty😊
In High School I worked at a Newberry's that was downtown about 3 blocks from my house.
I miss the Newberry stores that used to be in Portland , Oregon .
I remember the dover n.j. store, food shopping at the a & p and then lunch at Newberrys after.
Very cool!
We never had a Newberrys near us but did have Woolworths and Neisers
We had a local Five and Dime and larger towns had Woolworth and Ben Franklin. Don't remember seeing this company.
There was a Newberry's a couple of blocks from where I lived in Sunland Ca. I would walk through it on my home from school to browse the toy section all the time back in the 60's. Not sure if was own by Newberry's but there was a great all you can eat cafeteria next door that you could access through the store.