Brookshires Grocery in the 1920's
As a child in the 1950’s, we used to spend the whole Summer with my Grandparents in Tyler. My Mom grew up there. I have wonderful memories of Tyler, but part of it is when my Grandparents or Parents would take me and my cousins to shop at Brookshire’s!
Having no air conditioning at their house, we LOVED the cold air and floors there! Back then we used to go barefooted, and the cold floor felt WONDERful! (I don’t know if kids do that now) Our special treat was to each be able to pick out a comic book if we were good, and my Grandma taught us to each pick out a DIFFERENT one so we could trade and read 3 different ones!
Even though I lived in Brooklyn, NY, and my cousins lived in LA, California, we loved that time of year when we would live as one Family together in my Grandparents’ house on the State Park Highway, and play with our Texas cousins for the whole Summer!!! What a wonderful world it was for me…to this day, I feel that it was “therapeutic” as I was growing up, and I hope to go back one day. Cheryl
Brookshire's Tyler Texas 1940