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American History

ProfessorGAC

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8. The Store In My Hometown...

Reply to MichMan (Reply #7)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 06:35 PM

Apr 2024

...closed early 90s. It was one of the last of their stores to shutter. I think only 4 were still open when thus one closed.
But yeah, that was 48 years after this event.

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