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
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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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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/>
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