Historic Hood River
Absolutely Everything Must Go!
3-30-2022
Notes
This is object 91.013.003 from the museum archives. It is a hat which was purchased in the last hour of the last day of the Paris Fair, February 25, 1989. It is reported to be an $18 hat purchased for the bargain basement price of $1. The Paris Fair served Hood River residents for 88 years. It saw dramatic changes in fashion, finance and retail.
Did any of you get any of the bargains during the “Going Out of Business Sale” at the Paris Fair? I missed this sale, but did purchase some items from “Annz Panz” in that very same space on their last day, some twenty years later. They placed my purchase in a leftover “Paris Fair” bag.
L.E.
I think I would wear that only on St Patricks Day.
Kalley
I did miss Paris Fair after it closed. The tubes that your money was put in and your change would return in were so fun to watch.
Barbara Parsons
I liked sitting on the stools in the pattern department and looking at the huge McCall’s, Buttrick, Simplicity and Vogue pattern books. I never really sewed anything to wear, although my sister Dorothy became a great seamstress and quilter. I did take 4H sewing from l
Lynne Moseley’s mother and made a fringed luncheon cloth. I never even hosted a luncheon in all these years. If i ever come back for a visit, will some of you folks come to a luncheon at Dorothy’s house and eat off my fringed cloth?
Bill Seaton
I’ll come if you make borscht soup again.