Article: 50 years of whimsy.

Byline: Bob Quick

May 31--When Theo Raven was young, not too long after graduating from Santa Fe High School in 1949, she was making sandwiches for a paltry wage at a downtown shop.

In the same plaza off Palace Avenue, two women were running a retail shop, a business that immediately appealed to Raven, since one of the women sat in front of the store and read books all day.

"I thought that was a terrific way to make a living," Raven said.

Eventually Raven, with the help of her mother, borrowed some money, bought the business and renamed it Doodlet's Christmas Shop.

Friends began calling it Doodlet's, a name Raven had received ...

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