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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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before anyone could see him playing “baby” games, content that some things never change.
He exited Woolworth’s and was greeted by the waves of heat emanating from the shrill rays of the insistent, sweltering sun, which made him momentarily consider the purchases of five and dime shades and A-shirts.
The expansive sizes and purposes of the shop windows gradually expanded as he took it on the arches in an uptown direction. Initially, narrow windows provided light and limited display space for craftsmen and direct importers. Silversmiths displayed their handmade goods next to pieces they purchased on trips to Europe and the Northeast. Early china importers on the street filled their windows with colorful transfer printed earthenware and sleek porcelain dishes that had just arrived on trucks from New York City; and ships from Staffordshire, England; and Le Havre, France.
Leaded windows looked in on traditionally high end furniture stores, evocative of a time passed which focussed on quality, still popular with those who could afford it. Pilgrim, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Sheraton, Heppelwhite, and some of the Empire, that crafted before it got degraded and machined, still reigned in glory inside, defiant of the inferior succeeding forms. In