Category Archives: Dayton’s
Valerie Harper and Chanel Bonfire
We interrupt this holiday weekend to remind you that…
So if you live in Southern California or you’re visiting the Los Angeles area for the Memorial Day weekend, check out Vicki Abelson’s website and get a ticket. In Chanel, I describe visiting my father in the summers and him taking Robbie and me to Dayton’s department store in Minneapolis to buy playclothes which we never had in New York. Dayton’s is the store in front of which Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat into the air in the opening credits to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, co-starring none other than my reading buddy this Tuesday, Valerie Harper. Small world.
http://www.vickiabelson.com/site/Women_Who_Write/Women_Who_Write.html
Robbie and me in our playclothes from Dayton’s…
Every summer our dad would meet our plane at the Minneapolis Airport. He’d take one look at our Florence Eiseman dresses and polished Mary Janes and take us straight to Dayton’s Department store (where Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat in the air) to buy Garanimals, Keds and dungarees that we could get dirty and muddy and wet and be kids in.