This was where the new bookstore was.........Gingerbread Square books..........to the left........along the side of the Post Office...................was a path................a two story................hidden basement kinda..........was the property..............between the bookstore and the mall.......a small apartment was on the 2nd floor and store space on the 1st........Marge and her husband rented that for a while...supposedly a relative of Thor H..........her husband was into baseball.............Marge into basketball........................i think i remember her husband passing................................Chesire C.................was in that space......................a bunch of others..............Also.........in the basement........................my grandparents kept cans of pant........gallons........ladders.......a printing set.........woodblock printing.........the soda for the soda machine............which they sold or gave away.....................in like the early 1980s......................i worked on that property from 5 to like 25 years old...................................
To the right.........side........of that building........a Crab restaurant now................was one of the paths to the mall.............you could go around either way............we had European flags there..................a ton of flowers on either side of the pathway..................geraniums in barrels between that building and the mall........in the courtyard....................between the shed and the apartment................my maternal grandparents owned all that...........the 3 story brown house.......on Baltimore ave..............64 Baltimore i think...........with the parking spaces they rented out.................the mall had two stories.........only one when the bought it........i remember when they built the 2nd floor......................
The Treasure Chest..........if that is the correct name......................was like late 1970s or so..........maybe early 1980s............i just remember i loved to buy tiger eye stones there.......
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