I had lots of questions about the job, most of them revolved around whether this would be in the same store. The Management Trainee program sounded great, especially if it would help me on the Welsh front. They also had a beautiful girl working behind the counter with a Welsh accent. They had a sign in the window for their Management Trainee Program. This was a beautiful split-level store in Center City. I went to the Encore Books store in Rittenhouse Square. Armed with a History degree from Rutgers, I was living in Philadelphia and needed to get a GRE test book. It all seemed too intimidating.įlash forward to the late 80s. They had a robust selection of my favorites: Mad Magazine books, Beatles books, and Zander Hollander Baseball Annuals. Among the other stores in that mall was a little shop at the Sears end called, appropriately, The Book End. This was the place my friends and I would go to get the music we loved to hear on FM radio. Wee Three wasn’t a great store if you compare it to bigger brothers like Sound Odyssey and the epic Tower Records in Philly, but it was ours. First with your parents, hoping you’d be able to spend time in YOUR stores, and then getting a little older, riding your bike across forbidden busy roads to get to … THE MALL.
Going to the mall in those days was THE EVENT. The closest I ever got was a summer job at Kay-Bee Toys. Remember those? Specifically, the Wee Three Record store in the Moorestown Mall. Growing up in South Jersey, my dream was to work in a record store. It does not store any personal data.Senior Director of Trade Sales for Children’s Books at Macmillan The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.
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