Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History
The store where Donna's was well...t was kind of like a pharmacy, pre-convienience store/outfitters, tobacco shop...thing, for lack of better descriptors! Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: The Charles Village Chat List Chat@charlesvillage.infoTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]CC: Chat@charlesvillage.infoSubject: Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village HistoryDate: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST Thanks everyone for all the good hints in which to investigate the history in the 1960s-2000. Oddly, its a period where notmany documents have made their way into public archives yet, so its the most difficult to research. That's why we will rely on you all to help us along! I'll be asking lots of questions in the next two months, and hopefully you will all help just by reminiscing where you shopped and who you met, etc. Why was the store where Donna's is now, "strange?" Intriguing! Paul Paul K. WilliamsKelsey Associates, Inc2629 Guilford AvenueBaltimore, MD 21218(410) 366-2629BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com1929 13th Street, NWWashington, DC 20009(202) 462-3389WashingtonHistory.com ___Chat mailing listChat@charlesvillage.infohttp://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store
My main memory of that store is that when my daughter was learning to play the flute and would go there to buy cigarette papers (which she had been instructed to use to clean her flute), they would always refuse to see them to her. When I went there with her to explain what she needed them for, they told me that they still would not sell them to her, and that I would have to buy them. Recently, I learned that it is illegal to sell cigarette papers to a minor. If the person at the Hopkins Store had told me that, I would not have been so upset at the store. But I do much prefer having Donna's there. Steve. Christine Gray wrote: We used to call the store where Donna's is the dink. I don't know why. I think its actual name was The Hopkins Store. The people who worked there were sort of grayish and quiet and in their own world---in my opinion There was a lunch counter there at one time. It might have had a pharmacy. It was never a busy place. One thing about it that always surprised me was that no matter what you needed, the Dink would have it---no matter how arcane---eyelash curlers, Coca-Cola syrup, staplers, flea powder, games and puzzles, pacifiers, detergent, lighter flints---yet the shelves always seemed nearly bare. Christine Gray *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *D. Williams *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM *To:* Chat@charlesvillage.info *Subject:* Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History The store where Donna's was well...t was kind of like a pharmacy, pre-convienience store/outfitters, tobacco shop...thing, for lack of better descriptors! Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives! From: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Reply-To: /The Charles Village Chat List// Chat@charlesvillage.info/ To: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ CC: /Chat@charlesvillage.info/ Subject: /Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History/ Date: /Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST/ Thanks everyone for all the good hints in which to investigate the history in the 1960s-2000. Oddly, its a period where not many documents have made their way into public archives yet, so its the most difficult to research. That's why we will rely on you all to help us along! I'll be asking lots of questions in the next two months, and hopefully you will all help just by reminiscing where you shopped and who you met, etc. Why was the store where Donna's is now, strange? Intriguing! Paul Paul K. Williams Kelsey Associates, Inc 2629 Guilford Avenue Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 366-2629 BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com http://baltimoremarylandhistory.com/ 1929 13th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 462-3389 WashingtonHistory.com http://washingtonhistory.com/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2749??PS=47575 ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store
Bravo for that store in sticking to its guns in not selling a tobacco product--cigarette papers--to a minor. Makes total sense when one stops to think what cigarette papers are originally intended for, regardless of other creative off label non-nicotine uses. Mariann My main memory of that store is that when my daughter was learning to play the flute and would go there to buy cigarette papers (which she had been instructed to use to clean her flute), they would always refuse to see them to her. When I went there with her to explain what she needed them for, they told me that they still would not sell them to her, and that I would have to buy them. Recently, I learned that it is illegal to sell cigarette papers to a minor. If the person at the Hopkins Store had told me that, I would not have been so upset at the store. But I do much prefer having Donna's there. Steve. Christine Gray wrote: We used to call the store where Donna's is the dink. I don't know why. I think its actual name was The Hopkins Store. The people who worked there were sort of grayish and quiet and in their own world---in my opinion There was a lunch counter there at one time. It might have had a pharmacy. It was never a busy place. One thing about it that always surprised me was that no matter what you needed, the Dink would have it---no matter how arcane---eyelash curlers, Coca-Cola syrup, staplers, flea powder, games and puzzles, pacifiers, detergent, lighter flints---yet the shelves always seemed nearly bare. Christine Gray -- -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *D. Williams *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM *To:* Chat@charlesvillage.info *Subject:* Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History The store where Donna's was well...t was kind of like a pharmacy, pre-convienience store/outfitters, tobacco shop...thing, for lack of better descriptors! Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives! -- -- From: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Reply-To: /The Charles Village Chat List// Chat@charlesvillage.info/ To: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ CC: /Chat@charlesvillage.info/ Subject: /Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History/ Date: /Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST/ Thanks everyone for all the good hints in which to investigate the history in the 1960s-2000. Oddly, its a period where not many documents have made their way into public archives yet, so its the most difficult to research. That's why we will rely on you all to help us along! I'll be asking lots of questions in the next two months, and hopefully you will all help just by reminiscing where you shopped and who you met, etc. Why was the store where Donna's is now, strange? Intriguing! Paul Paul K. Williams Kelsey Associates, Inc 2629 Guilford Avenue Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 366-2629 BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com http://baltimoremarylandhistory.com/ 1929 13th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 462-3389 WashingtonHistory.com http://washingtonhistory.com/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesv illage.info -- -- Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2749??PS=47575 -- -- ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store
Yeah because, you know, teens who start smoking do so by rolling their own. On Nov 17, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Mariann Millard wrote: Bravo for that store in sticking to its guns in not selling a tobacco product--cigarette papers--to a minor. Makes total sense when one stops to think what cigarette papers are originally intended for, regardless of other creative off label non-nicotine uses. Mariann My main memory of that store is that when my daughter was learning to play the flute and would go there to buy cigarette papers (which she had been instructed to use to clean her flute), they would always refuse to see them to her. When I went there with her to explain what she needed them for, they told me that they still would not sell them to her, and that I would have to buy them. Recently, I learned that it is illegal to sell cigarette papers to a minor. If the person at the Hopkins Store had told me that, I would not have been so upset at the store. But I do much prefer having Donna's there. Steve. Christine Gray wrote: We used to call the store where Donna's is the dink. I don't know why. I think its actual name was The Hopkins Store. The people who worked there were sort of grayish and quiet and in their own world---in my opinion There was a lunch counter there at one time. It might have had a pharmacy. It was never a busy place. One thing about it that always surprised me was that no matter what you needed, the Dink would have it---no matter how arcane---eyelash curlers, Coca-Cola syrup, staplers, flea powder, games and puzzles, pacifiers, detergent, lighter flints---yet the shelves always seemed nearly bare. Christine Gray -- -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *D. Williams *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM *To:* Chat@charlesvillage.info *Subject:* Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History The store where Donna's was well...t was kind of like a pharmacy, pre-convienience store/outfitters, tobacco shop...thing, for lack of better descriptors! Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives! -- -- From: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Reply-To: /The Charles Village Chat List// Chat@charlesvillage.info/ To: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ CC: /Chat@charlesvillage.info/ Subject: /Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History/ Date: /Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST/ Thanks everyone for all the good hints in which to investigate the history in the 1960s-2000. Oddly, its a period where not many documents have made their way into public archives yet, so its the most difficult to research. That's why we will rely on you all to help us along! I'll be asking lots of questions in the next two months, and hopefully you will all help just by reminiscing where you shopped and who you met, etc. Why was the store where Donna's is now, strange? Intriguing! Paul Paul K. Williams Kelsey Associates, Inc 2629 Guilford Avenue Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 366-2629 BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com http://baltimoremarylandhistory.com/ 1929 13th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 462-3389 WashingtonHistory.com http://washingtonhistory.com/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesv illage.info -- -- Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2749??PS=47575 -- -- ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
[Chat] cv history
in case my post got missed? the 'dinks' were mr and mrs cohen . the person with the parrot sounds like their son stuart. he also lived in the area. now lives in lauraville. i don't remember the eating counters but i wasn't here in the early 70's. somewhere in my mountain of personal items i have a matchpack from the bluejay. judy ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store
My best recollection of The Hopkins Store is from 1993 or 94 when they paid $100 to be one of the sponsors ofthe Neighborhood Walkers program (along with Eddie's and Sam's Bagels). That meant that they got their logo on the back of the mug with the CVCA logo on the front that we gave to new Neighborhood Walker recruits. We pretty quickly went through the entire order of 50 mugs or 100 or whatever it was -- there are probably other folks out there who still have them! -Matthew In a message dated 11/17/06 9:43:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main memory of that store is that when my daughter was learning to play the flute and would go there to buy cigarette papers (which she had been instructed to use to clean her flute), they would always refuse to see them to her. When I went there with her to explain what she needed them for, they told me that they still would not sell them to her, and that I would have to buy them. Recently, I learned that it is illegal to sell cigarette papers to a minor. If the person at the Hopkins Store had told me that, I would not have been so upset at the store. But I do much prefer having Donna's there. Steve. Christine Gray wrote: We used to call the store where Donna’s is “the dink.” I don’t know why. I think its actual name was The Hopkins Store. The people who worked there were sort of grayish and quiet and in their own world—in my opinion There was a lunch counter there at one time. It might have had a pharmacy. It was never a busy place. One thing about it that always surprised me was that no matter what you needed, the Dink would have it—no matter how arcane—eyelash curlers, Coca-Cola syrup, staplers, flea powder, games and puzzles, pacifiers, detergent, lighter flints—yet the shelves always seemed nearly bare. Christine Gray From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Williams Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM To: Chat@charlesvillage.info Subject: Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History The store where Donna's was well...t was kind of like a pharmacy, pre-convienience store/outfitters, tobacco shop...thing, for lack of better descriptors! Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Charles Village Chat List Chat@charlesvillage.info To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Chat@charlesvillage.info Subject: Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST Thanks everyone for all the good hints in which to investigate the history in the 1960s-2000. Oddly, its a period where not many documents have made their way into public archives yet, so its the most difficult to research. That's why we will rely on you all to help us along! I'll be asking lots of questions in the next two months, and hopefully you will all help just by reminiscing where you shopped and who you met, etc. Why was the store where Donna's is now, strange? Intriguing! Paul Paul K. Williams Kelsey Associates, Inc 2629 Guilford Avenue Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 366-2629 BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com 1929 13th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 462-3389 WashingtonHistory.com ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info
