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Department store memories

Has anyone here ever worked for the company featured on the front of a baseball card? Now, if you didn't have the ability to scroll down this post, or blasted Blogger didn't feature the first image on everyone's post in the dashboard, then you'd assume I was talking about working for Topps or Upper Deck or one of those cool card companies. But actually, I'm talking about working for barely above minimum wage at a department store. I spent one summer in college working a second job at Hills, which was a discount-type store, pretty much like Kmart. It no longer exists. Ames bought it out in 1999. Then Ames went bankrupt three years later. I worked for another department store before I moved away to college. Enjoyed my time there immensely. Quite the social scene. But that department store doesn't exist anymore either. Apparently, these stores just couldn't function after I left them. Anyway, here's the card that features the store I'm talking about...