[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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> > *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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> >     [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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