<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">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 Neighborhood Walker recruits. We pretty quickly went through the entire order of 50 mugs or 100 or whatever it was -- there are probably other folks out there who still have them!<BR>
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In a message dated 11/17/06 9:43:47 AM, gewirtz@bellatlantic.net writes:<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Christine Gray wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> 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.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> The people who worked there were sort of grayish and quiet and in their own world—in my opinion </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> There was a lunch counter there at one time. It might have had a pharmacy.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> It was never a busy place.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> 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.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="2"><B>Sent:</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> Friday, November 17, 2006 8:51 AM<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="2"><B>Subject:</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="2"> Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Charles Village History</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"> 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! </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"> Don't forget, the Friends meeting house has lots of archives!</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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Date:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="1"><I> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:22:14 EST</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0" SIZE="1"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">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!</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> 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. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> Why was the store where Donna's is now, "strange?" Intriguing! </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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