Yes, but it kind of makes sense in context of the date. Opened in 1914, a classic old-fashioned menswear store from the era where all men wore wore hats and white collar workers all wore suits and overcoats. This would still apply to what I'd imagine was the second generation owners era— they might have been Bob Hope fans. A third generation might be about my age, retiring, and remembering watching Hope on TV as a child in the fifties. I've never entered the store but the display windows (there are bigger ones in front) always showed conservative business clothes. No sportswear, no jeans, no radical styling or loud colors. Gee, I'm making myself interested enough to maybe stop in and talk to someone inside before they finish the everything-must-go sale.
Up through WWII the big employer in the area was the Farrell foundry which has/had factory buildings right in the town center, a block or two from the store. The executives and managers would all have needed this style of clothing 5-6 days a week, and back then even the blue collar workers would have needed at least one suit-tie-overcoat-oxford-shoes outfit for church and special occassions.
Name appears to be English: https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=seccombe
Which surprises me a little since I'd guessed it might be Italian. In 1914 the area had a lot of Italian immigration to work in the factors, foundries, and mills. Of course a century or two earlier and the population was mostly English background. Many CT town names are borrowed from England—Cornwall, Bethel, etc.
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Strange goodbye for a shop, isn't it?
Yes, but it kind of makes sense in context of the date. Opened in 1914, a classic old-fashioned menswear store from the era where all men wore wore hats and white collar workers all wore suits and overcoats. This would still apply to what I'd imagine was the second generation owners era— they might have been Bob Hope fans. A third generation might be about my age, retiring, and remembering watching Hope on TV as a child in the fifties. I've never entered the store but the display windows (there are bigger ones in front) always showed conservative business clothes. No sportswear, no jeans, no radical styling or loud colors. Gee, I'm making myself interested enough to maybe stop in and talk to someone inside before they finish the everything-must-go sale.
Up through WWII the big employer in the area was the Farrell foundry which has/had factory buildings right in the town center, a block or two from the store. The executives and managers would all have needed this style of clothing 5-6 days a week, and back then even the blue collar workers would have needed at least one suit-tie-overcoat-oxford-shoes outfit for church and special occassions.
I think it's rather nice. Saying thanks to the customers for the memories. It's something I would expect the customers to say.
Perhaps a playful approach to the cliché "Thank you for the confidence you have placed in us"? Turning it the other way round?
Interesting, nevertheless, yes, please, talk to them :-) - say some German would like to know who and how and why they came up with this. *smile*
https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Seccombe
I was wondering about the surname, too ...
Name appears to be English: https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=seccombe
Which surprises me a little since I'd guessed it might be Italian. In 1914 the area had a lot of Italian immigration to work in the factors, foundries, and mills. Of course a century or two earlier and the population was mostly English background. Many CT town names are borrowed from England—Cornwall, Bethel, etc.
lol - I looked it up because I thought it Italian, too.
Secco is definitely Italian ;-)
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