[Chat] The Hopkins Store
Mariann Millard
qbdmar at cavtel.net
Fri Nov 17 09:57:02 EST 2006
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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > [mailto:Chat-bounces at charlesvillage.info] *On Behalf Of
> > *D. Williams *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM
> > *To:* Chat at 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! >
> >
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> > /Chat at 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/>
> >
> >
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