Just like Nora said.....like an old fashioned dime store...or 5 and dime, as they were called in my childhood. I grew up inthe 40's and was permitted to go downtown by myself when I was about 10. That would be 1944. I loved the 5 and dime stores...McCrory and JJNewberry. Does anyome remember any others? And did some of them carry fabrics. When I first moved to Cincinnati in 1963 there was a big GCMurphy store in a shopping center near my home. When I had my "night out" I would go there and buy fabric. I met the girl who covered fabrics and we became friends. We still visit by phone after 40 years, Those were the days of really good prices and some good fabrics.
Seems as though everything was better back then, But my 73 year old memory is not always too sharp.
June