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116. Joske's department store, downtown San Antonio, TX.

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 09:10 AM

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Within spitting distance of The Alamo.

My mother and grandmother (and usually an aunt or two) started dragging me there when I was maybe five years old, back in the 1950's. As was the custom back then, they were always immaculately dressed for the occasion: their best dresses, hats, stockings, etc. I look back on it with fondness, but I hated it, at the time. Whole different world...

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