VintageCurioShoppe The History Behind the Items

 Planning a wedding now is very different from past decades.  Now we have everything online, Save the Date Cards, Destination Weddings, Wedding Websites, Online Registries, Honeymoon Registries.  Email invitations and thank you's.  In the 1980's you walked through a store with a representative and they wrote down the items that you and your betrothed liked.  Your family and friends would have then asked where you were registered, gone to that store and would receive a list from the Registry Department.  In the 1940's, the store you went to gave you very personalized service to plan your wedding.  Here we are sharing a gift given to newly engaged women from Hess Brothers Department Store in Allentown PA.  Hess Brothers was THE destination to make all plans and purchases for your new life as a wife.  Max and Charles Hess were brother's who grew up in Germany.  They found that the area of Allentown PA in the year 1896 was a town that was starting to build up.  They rented

 My husband and I live an eclectic life.   I am a musician and educator by trade.  I love to garden.  To create.   My husband loves technology and gadgets.  A member of the Masons.  We both love history.   World History.  US History.  Human History.  Antiquing.  Learning.  I'm blessed to have a partner in all aspects of my life.  It's one of the reasons we started our antique shoppe.   We have a personal affection for reading diaries of the past.  To learn how things were done, to learn from the past.  We hunt for, read and cherish these diaries, scrap books, journals........ Some we choose to keep (especially the very old ones) and some we enjoy and then offer them in our shoppe.  I do further research, trying to learn more about their lives. I become emotionally invested in what I read.   Not to question why we were able to acquire this history.  Just be grateful that we were able to share in this Man's Accomplishments.  In this scrapbook we found so many things in common