Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store

2006-11-17 Thread WeinsteinM
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 Ne

Re: [Chat] cv history

2006-11-17 Thread Christine Gray
Judy, we didn't refer to the people as the dinks. That's what my little brother called the store. I met Stuart, I think, at Margaret Brent when he was one of the voting supervisors. Christine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Berlin

[Chat] cv history

2006-11-17 Thread Judy Berlin
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 h

Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store

2006-11-17 Thread Dale Ghent
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 cig

Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store

2006-11-17 Thread Mariann Millard
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 s

Re: [Chat] The Hopkins Store

2006-11-17 Thread Stephen J Gewirtz
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

[Chat] The Hopkins Store

2006-11-17 Thread Christine Gray
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 pharm

Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History

2006-11-17 Thread D. Williams
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 To: [EMAIL PROT