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SWEET MEMORIES

I especially enjoyed the look-back at “General Stories” on the back page of the June 2019 issue.

Floyd’s Mall is no longer operating, but the ancient, oversize, creaking building remains in Stony Creek Center as a reminder. The ghost of earlier owner Beecher Glassbrook roams the interior—the same Glassbrook who, with wire-rimmed spectacles, presided behind glass-covered cabinets where we would press our noses, eyeing chocolate

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