[Chat] The Hopkins Store

[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 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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>>> *From:* Chat-bounces at charlesvillage.info
>>> [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
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>>>
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