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Cynthia Hightower (Taylor)
Joanna Hinton Garrett
I too, remember going to Kaplans-Ben Hur with my grandmother when I was very young, maybe 5. It was only one of the names then, maybe Ben Hur, before they expanded and long before they remodeled and spilled down 22nd or whatever the street #. It fronted on Yale. It had a wooden floor and when you went from one store to another you walked up/down the little ramp. There was a huge section of glassware in the front of the store and I wasn't supposed to touch ANYTHING. My grandmother would cringe if I so much as extended my arm to point at anything in the breakable section. Granny used to sew, so we always had to make a boring round of the remnant counter where a very German, Ms. Hattie, used to work. When I was first married I learned that they had a lay-away, remember those? I opened an acct. and had the thing for years. The good old days, I sure remember those! I got an invitation to the closing of the store. A sad day, but I am really surprised it lasted as long as it did with all the competition. That store had a long run!
Cindy Hightower Taylor
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