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Article: Tim Grobaty: Funky memories of Roberts Department Store
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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ROBERTS RULED: We're not going to sit here and pretend that the
building that housed the old Roberts Department Store uptown at 4450
Atlantic Ave. is our favorite building in town. The former W.T.
Grant store - it became Roberts in late 1967 - looks like many of
the other boxy buildings in the shopping district. It is utilitarian
in design is the best thing we can say about it.
But, look at us. One doesn't blunder into this sort of stylish
appearance. You think we just snatch garments at random from a pile
on the floor? Dressing as we dress takes planning, an innate and
unteachable sense of fashion - a certain amount of fearlessness,
sure - and access to the finest stores, and we somehow ...