Do you remember Ben Franklin Stores?

This is gonna take some getting used to!!!

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Originally Posted by bkthomas

Ooops! This was in reply to AlohaSandy in Hawaii! But will let you know if I'm ever up that way - Thanks for the warm welcome!! Sounds like a super place to visit, then maybe we can go to MSQC!!!

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Well, if you ever get this way, let us know. MSQC is 209 miles from my house, according to Google maps. It is halfway to my son's house in Des Moines, so if I go to see them, I plan on stopping for a vist to MSQC. I want to see their new store.

Plus, I was wondering where you were going to be stationed for 3 years in or near St. Louis, no military bases near here!

We had a wonderful Ben Franklin in the next town over until about 1997-98. The store was original with wide plank wood floors, old ceiling fans, a real candy counter where they weighed your candy and all the old-fashioned items plus fabrics and carft supplies. The BF store is now our vet's office! I sure to miss that place!

I haven't seen a Ben Franklin store in years! Loved to go to BF as a youngster.

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Originally Posted by auntiemern

I loved Ben Franklin. Was sad when the one in So. County by St. Anthony's closed. Where are the one's in St. Louis located Jean? Might need to go check it out.

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I was shocked the first time I was by there and it was gone. I thought their fabric was going downhill tho. I had not found anything good there for a while.
I need to find the others in St Louis. There is one in downtown Belleville, Ill too

You know now that I think about it it doesn't have fab. anymore only yarn sorry senior moment lol

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Originally Posted by HandsOffItsMine

No fabric at the Ben Franklin in Pearl City - Sandy does the other one have fabric?

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Ben Franklins here in Richmond VA have just been bought out and will be changing their name to AC Moore. But AC Moore isn't who bought them, it was just a higher name recognition (I know the people who bought them, used to work for them...)

The Ben Franklin I went to today had a very excellent collection of ginghams, real woven ginghams. Since I make costumes, sometimes this is the fabric to be used in a period show, and it is often hard to find, especially in various colors at big fabric stores. They had enough to costume a whole chorus of cowgirls!

They also had some batiks, which I bought a few cuts of. And a whole stack of Easter fabric, unopened bolts, too bad it is a week too late! It was really pretty.

Most of their fabrics were in flat folds, but the stuff on bolts was in larger quantities than I can usually find in big stores, large enough to do some big backings for big queen/king quilts. That isn't easy to find in many places.

We still have one here in Southern Iowa and it has quite a lot of beautiful fabric and supplies. (I also like the candy counter!)

We had a real nice one here. it's been gone for sometime now and i still miss it. my kids called it the "candy store."

I remember the Sen-Sens. my grandpa always had some. Once in a while he would give us one-oddtasting things- but we loved to get them. that and Beemans gum.