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Physical Therapy Serving Children 0 - 4 years old We now provide Occupational Therapy Openings available. Call today! 910-868-6000 www.movewithmept.com Christmas with my family to people watch and take in the decorative lights," he said. "The Capitol decorated their windows with a big Christmas scene." In the 1900s, some of the earliest Jew- ish families were the Fleishmans, from Latvia, and the Stein's, from Lithuania. Many people recall Herlyn Stein's jew- elry shop and the antiques she brought to Fayetteville from around the world. She was known for her spectacular, unique pieces. The Capitol always car- ried higher end items, right down to having their own millinery department which sold hats. It was a specialty shop indeed. As Nick Fasul's Strawberry, Peanut Butter, Red Velvet, Pomegranate, Cable Car Chocolate, Vanilla, Original Tart and Mellow Mango Of Course! OUR CURRENT FLAVORS Cake Batter, Cookies & Cream, Banana, Dulce De Leche, Coconut, Thin Mint, NY Cheesecake, Praline, NEW LOCATION COMING SOON In the new Traemoor Village Shopping Center in Hope Mills 2800 Raeford Road, Suite 3 (910) 433-0770 30 | October • 2012 Dena Potter's family also has deep roots in Fayetteville. She recalled the family having their own charge account at The Capitol. She would oſten take her three sisters shopping and it would be paid for at the end of the month. That's how the businesses ran back before plastic changed the meaning of "charge it." "Mrs. Poe had the most wonderful lunches and Mrs. Stein had the most unique jewelry. Her items came from Europe and all over, I loved them," Pot- ter said, referring to Ruth Poe's down- town restaurant The Birdcage. Bob Bleecker recalls when his father bought him his first suit downtown. "He was a suit man, as am I today, wearing one to work everyday," he said. Another local resident with family ties to early Fayetteville is Ann Newber- ry Augustine. As a child Augustine re- calls shopping at Fleishman's Big Store. "This was my shop and Mable was the woman who waited on me," she said. oldest daughter, "She knew what size I wore and what would look cute on me and would call Mother when something would come in to suit me." Ms. West, an employee at Fleish- man's, was in charge of the shoe de- partment and, to measure the size of a customer's foot, Augustine said you would look through a machine that would show the bones in your foot to see if your shoes fit correctly, similar to an x-ray. She also remembered finding toys in the store that dazzled her eyes. "One Christmas I really wanted a Tony doll from Fleishman's and I did not get it under the tree, but daddy bought me the last one in the window, following Christmas," Augustine said. In high school Augustine said she shopped at The Capitol and said the fashions then included tweed suits with fur or Peter Pan collars, Pappagallo shoes and circle pins. "We all looked alike in the fall," she said. "Glamour magazine came out and told us what we should all be wearing and The Capitol carried it all." before her marriage came from The Capitol. "I spent more on a Christian Dior nightgown than on my own wed- ding dress. It was raw silk with beaded lace, and I later passed it down to my daughters," she said. Susan Bender, Ruth Poe's daughter, reminisced about her childhood memo- ries in Fayetteville. Though she went away to St. Mary's boarding school, she said that she still has memories shop- ping at The Capitol. CV The trousseau Augustine collected W A S H

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