My wife and I were watching the Hess’s documentary on PBS 39 last night.  Even though I wasn’t alive for Hess’s (and Allentown’s) mid-century glory, I visited the original store on 9th and Hamilton quite a few times in my youth (the 80s and early 90s).  My memories of Hess’s aren’t as robust as my parents’:  I never saw Pip’s show in the window, the Flower Show, or Adam West and Burt Ward.  I do remember 1984 Olympic apparel and following the Swatch counter workers around the store because my cousins and I were convinced they had top-secret new designs on their persons (I remember them in white lab coats. please tell me this is not confabulation).  I remember standing in line for a seat at the Patio (a formerly world-famous restaurant on the basement level for you out-of-towners) not very infrequently, and having my meal (usually chicken croquets) brought in a miniature oven and desserts (chocolate mousse) in tiny freezers.  I remember the models, the French room, the spiraling drive of the parking deck.  Other memories are more spotty.  At some point, a store is a store is a store to a kid.

What do you remember?