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Warren Ohio Real Estate: Remembering Warren Again As a resident of Warren, Ohio, I thought I would again deal with remembrances of when I grew up in Warren.  See if these jog your memory.     As I passed the Court House in downtown Warren the other evening, I reminisced about the beauty of the Court House dome as it was lit each holiday season and could be seen from my bedroom window on Comstock Street N.W. and our busy downtown stores where you ran into friends and neighbors because this was where everyone shopped. In later years, at Christmas and throughout the year, how exciting it was to experience the hustle and bustle of shoppers at the Warren Plaza on Elm Road or the Parkman Road Plaza.  Those were our malls!  Downtown Warren was only open until 9 p.m. on Monday and Thursday evenings so the plazas offered the first regular evening shopping to us back then. Can you remember sitting on the wooden benches in the wooden bus shelter on Market Street in front of the Court House?  The wind whipped through as we huddled on those cold seats waiting for the next bus to take us home. How about the lily pond behind the Packard Park Shelter House and the beautiful roses in the Tea Garden?  I also remember deer, swans, ducks, geese, and probably other animals I can't recall were kept in a fenced area where the Packard Music Hall now stands. Do you remember ration stamps for various things?  How about sales tax stamps given with every purchase which we saved to take to school so that the schools could redeem them for their needs, much as today we save grocery register tapes?  Remember green stamps given at grocery stores to be redeemed for merchandise at the Green Stamp Redemption Store on South Main St. where the old A & P Grocery Store was across from a beer garden called the Black and Tan which had a neat flashing sign out front. What a snowfall that was in the late 40's or early 50's when the whole area stood still as Warren Ohio real estate neighborhoods worked together to shovel out their streets!  And how about that summer day when the sky turned dark in the middle of the day because of some fires in Canada?  We were all spooked by that one. There was a butcher-produce store on downtown High Street called The Market House, where my parents would stop for such exotic staples as hot dogs or ground beef (Three pounds for a dollar for ground beef rings a bell in my shopping memory but that was at a later time, I think.)  I don't believe one can still buy Fels Naptha bar soap which my mother would shave into her wringer washer each week or my dad would use to ward off poison ivy after exposure.  And do you recall backing into the curtain stretcher with those little nails sticking out as it grabbed the lacy or net-like curtains as they were drying in the basement?  When you came home from school on Monday, the basement clothes lines would be full of wet clothes drying, and mother would warn not to touch the clean clothes. On early summer evenings we children would walk south on Park Avenue to get a custard at a store at the corner of Park and Griswold and enjoy or be disgusted by the smell of stale beer and music or laughter being emitted from the open doors of the taverns and wonder at the mystery of those dim forbidden places. Well, this is it.  So much to say, but no time left to say it.  Thank you for letting me know you´ve enjoyed this blog. I have certainly enjoyed writing it!  A lot has changed since I grew up in Warren, but one thing has not changed - Warren is still a great place to live and people can find affordable Warren Ohio real estate for sale. This is your market!  We can help you buy your first home and show you how to get the stimulus tax credit, (escrow must close before 12/01/2009). Don't wait, give The Marino Home Team a call today!     Contact us now!   Phone Bernice: (330) 219-8653 Phone Dom:      (330) 219-4417 Email:  info@MarinoHomeTeam.com

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