[Chat] The Hopkins Store

[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 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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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!


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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/> 
 

 

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