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!
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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
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
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
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
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
