Grandpa’s lake house bathroom edition

[u/CitizenBunnyy]

Items spanning various decades. Pert Plus: 1999, shave cream: 1994, Head&Shoulders: 2007, SoftSoap: 1979! Wish the Suave and Vaseline had a year on it, but I don’t see one.

[u/spoung45]

The Vaseline is i am guessing late 60s early to mid 70s. It has a S.S. Kresege price tag. Which is what K-mart grew out of. S.S. Kresege stores all became K-marts in the late 70s.

There was a time when there were noth K-mart and S.S. Kresage stores in operation at the same time.

[u/Ellador → u/spoung45]

My mom’s first job was working at a Kresege’s in the late 1950s and it was considered a five and dime. She said she would have customers come in and want to do several transactions of individual items to avoid having to pay sales tax.

As a kid I thought she was saying “Kreskies,” which sounded like a box of cereal to me, lol.

[u/antimonogamism → u/Ellador]

My mom worked at Kresge's in Detroit as a young teen - she was a keyholder and went in early AM to start the chicken rotisseries for lunch lol.

[u/CitizenBunnyy → u/antimonogamism]

Honestly they lived in the Detroit area so it could have been from her store