Comments on: The new Mashbir

By: Hadarat Nashim | ISRAELITY

Hadarat Nashim | ISRAELITY — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:07:47 +0000

[...] meantime, back to the protest. Got off the bus, just across from the plaza in front of the former Hamashbir department store, where the protesters were gathering and dancing to some Hadag Nachash being [...]

By: Mashbir desires | ISRAELITY

Mashbir desires | ISRAELITY — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:23:28 +0000

[...] written about the Mashbir before, Israel’s main department store, and really, only department store. It’s a place of [...]

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Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:18:40 +0000

[...] about the New Mashbir brought back fond memories of summers past. We used to go to the Carvel next door for ice cream. Not [...]

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:40:50 +0000

Good old 1985- Ice cream at Carvel, Ritchie’s Pizza and drinks at Lalos.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:04:08 +0000

Speaking of first pairs of jeans, the first pair of jeans I bought in Israel, back in 1985, were at Rosh Indiani on Dizengoff. The height of cool….

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:23:10 +0000

I bought my very first pair of blue jeans at that store! Lee jeans, not Levis (these were only available through the now defunct ATA company which held the manufacturing and sales franchise for Israel). To buy anything at Hamashbir, you had to make your intention known to an imposing high-haired woman of a certain age who wrote out a receipt. You then went to the register, stood in line, paid (eventually) and then brought a small chit back to the saleswoman who grudgingly handed over your purchase. A anti-free market method clearly conceived of by the same Bolsheviks who set up the GUM department store in Moscow. And yet, it’s sad to see the old place go…