Remember back in January, when I asked if you remembered Gregory’s Menswear on North George Street in York?
As I’m coming to expect, I got a lot of really detailed responses that really took me back in time!
Shirley Monroe writes, “Thanks for helping your readers travel down memory lane remembering the good old days in downtown York where every Friday night and Saturday the stores and streets would be full of shoppers. The Christmas shopping season started the first week in December. … Our family participated in Gregory’s Semi Annual sale many times. Customers would line up on North George Street before the store opened. You had to get there early to be sure to get the bargains. Gregory’s was across the street from the Ramona restaurant where many people would stop to eat after shopping or attending a movie.”
Commenter Dufus (great name, by the way!) says, “Always bought my clothes at Gregory’s downtown. It was always a great experience buying there and the sales people were the best.”
And my brother-in-law Mike writes, “My dad always bought his dress-up clothes at Gregory’s in the sixties. Sport coats, shoes, shirts, and dress pants. He was a ‘sharp-dressed man.’”
Jim Knaub says, “I did most of my clothing shopping at Gregory’s and wonder if anyone remembers the name of the theme song of the Gregory Gift Program on the Air, this program was on WORK radio station every evening at 6:00 PM.”
I bet some of our former WORK employees reading this blog can help with that! Any ideas on that theme song?
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Gregory’s was a tad before my time for dress, but remember that each Christmas they would put a Gift Certificate into a glass ornament ball with ‘Gregory’s’ name in applied glitter on the ball, the little box holding the ball was printed with ‘It Came From Gregory’s’. When WORK 1350 AM Radio was on, the 9 a.m. hour was sponsored by Gregory’s Men’s Wear – as Al Loper would and Doc Daugherty would report/announce. My Father had bought there and wish I still had the hat box (and the hat!!) which held a Stetson Hamburg style hat he wore & purchased there! Also this location was the home of Casmir Pulaski, whose logo of ‘The Little General’ was used in York City correspondence during the Charles Robertson Administration (a metal cutout is atop the Rex/Laurel Fire Station of the Little General).
the answer to Jim Knaubs question about the theme song for the “Gregory Gift Program” on WORK radio was a tune called ” Take It Easy” by Bob Crosby (bings brother) and his bobcats. That show as originaly on around 6pm in the evening in the 1950s and was hosted by George Trout. It was revived in 1968 and was on at 7:45 in the morning and was hosted by me.Terry Downs seems to have the “Gift program” confused with another WORK mainstay that was called “Good Morning Neighbor”. that show was on from 9 to 11am weekdays . It was hosted for many hears by Mr. Trout and was hosted in later years by Al Gregson, although I did fill in for him from time to time. To my knowledge, Doc Daughterty never hosted Good Morning Neighbor but he did come on every morning at 11, right after that show. It’s nice to know that there are still some people who remember the old 1350 am , W O R K radio (York’s first radio station).