{"id":292689,"date":"2026-09-24T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292689\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:22:36","slug":"kmart-memories-live-on-for-erie-shoppers-and-staff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292689\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart memories live on for Erie shoppers and staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill&#8217;s Cafe, 1102 E. 26th St., closed July 26, 2007, after being in the Serafini family for more than 50 years. Tom Irish, daytime bartender and regular patron, said at the time, &#8220;It&#8217;s an era coming to the end. &#8230;The mom-and -pop corner bars are going by the wayside, just as your old mom-and-pop grocery stores did. But they still have that personality that you won&#8217;t get in a lot of brass-and-mahogany buildings.&#8221; (Janet B. Campbell\/Erie Times-News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill&#8217;s Cafe, 1102 E. 26th St., closed July 26, 2007, after being in the Serafini family for more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,121301],"class_list":["post-292689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-kmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}