My first job was at a House of Fabrics. I believe it was called Sofro Fabrics on the east coast. A few months later my best friend was also hired at the store. There was a Penny's directly across the mall from our store, and a Montgomery Wards and Harris' store in the mall. A Mervyn's store was directly out side the mall. We made friends with all of the clerks in the fabric departments at these stores and we all shared our employee discounts when we made purchases in the fabric department. Then they opened a Cloth World a few miles away and my best friend hired on there, so we would be able to get a discount there too! I have such wonderful memories of these people and the fun we had together. One of the perks of working at the store was when the pattern companies discontinued old patterns. We would inventory the pattern numbers off of the envelopes and then the patterns would be discarded in the trash. Our store manager allowed us to take home any discarded patterns for personal use. I kept alot of the craft patterns and I still have many of them and still use them!