10 Soap Opera Retailers Who'd Get Our Black Friday Business!
No. 9: Ballistix/Salem Place, Days of Our Lives
When an all-grown-up Carrie Brady (Tracy Middendorf) returned to Salem in 1991 on Days of Our Lives, a lot had changed with her family. The "dad" who raised her, wasn't really her father, he was amnesiac John Black (Drake Hogestyn). Her real dad, Roman (Wayne Northrop) was alive and well, as was her beloved stepmother Dr. Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall). It's a good thing the girl found a bitchin' mall to hang out at and work in during the summer of '92, or she would have gotten herself into even more of the kind of trouble she found with Lawrence Alamain (Michael Sabatino)!
Middendorf didn't inhabit the role of Carrie very long (Welcome back, Christie Clark!), but Ballistix, the cute boutique at the center of the Salem Place Mall, remained a DAYS staple for well over a decade. In fact, it was the place Carrie first spied a musical Austin Reed (Patrick Muldoon).
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4 January 2011
3 weeks 4 days
Enjoyed the list Jamey! You seriously come up with the most creative top 10's. Only wish I could have watched some of the shows but wasn't born then.
30 March 2009
5 days 3 hours
I'm stunned Jamey! No "Gina's Jeans" or "Mrs. Capwell's Cookies" (Santa Barbara)!? HAHAHA!
22 January 2008
4 min 38 sec
I'm stunned Jamey! No "Gina's Jeans" or "Mrs. Capwell's Cookies" (Santa Barbara)!? HAHAHA!
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LOL I have to make a decided effort to think of list items from other soaps than SB and AW. I am sure many readers have started a drinking game!
2 October 2009
2 weeks 5 days
I Really Enjoyed Berrenger's--Sigh!
Brian
30 March 2009
5 days 3 hours
You mean you don't write this column just for me. LOL. It's okay, you'll always be my Santa Barbara brother from another mother.
30 March 2009
5 days 3 hours
You mean you don't write this column just for me. LOL. It's okay, you'll always be my Santa Barbara brother from another mother.
5 November 2010
2 weeks 3 days
Thanks for a great list! Awesome idea. I avoid black Friday (in person) sales, but love reminiscing about the soap stores. So few shows left. I find myself listening to lots of your old podcasts to laugh during 2008/9 when we still had enough soaps on for DC to have multiple weekly podcast episodes. Those were the days.