As a small kid I remember going there with my Mother. Two things about it stand out in my memory. First, the yellow tinted window shades that gave the interior a golden glow when the late afternoon sun shown through. Secondly how old and quaint the store seemed to me even then in the mid to late 50s when all the stores were old and quaint. In those days we walked everywhere for shopping. It was not uncommon to walk from 69th & Wood to Armands Department Store, just east of Ashland, then north to the 63rd & Ashland shopping area.

On our way home I would beg my mother to stop by the house on the NE corner of 68th and Wood that had a beautiful stone garden in the yard. It had a knee-high wall along the 68th street sidewalk so visitors could easily se his creation. Crowds of people would stop on warm summer evenings to enjoy the man's work. He had waterfalls and colored landscaping lights before anyone else was doing this. FYI, I recently did a street view of that intersection and the stone knee wall is still there, but the rest is long gone. I also noticed that my alma mater, St Mary grammar school building is gone. It looks like the church, rectory and parking lot are still there, but no more school.