Then & Now: Do you know where this is?
The morning paper. A piece of candy. Maybe a pack of cigarettes. Or a greeting card.
And, of course, a warm hello from Velma Frazier.
It was all here.
Frazier's News, outside of Worcester, was a simple but important store for more than six decades. It was a true family business, absent in attitude and look of anything that would suggest a chain store.
This week's Then photo shows Frazier's in 1988, soon after Velma, then 73, decided she had had enough. Her parents bought the store from a family member in 1924.
"I have some customers who have bought the paper every day for 40 years," Velma told a reporter days before she locked up for the last time.
The old Frazier's building still stands, most recently used for education. Except these days, children aren't rushing through the door in search of penny candy.
See Monday's Telegram & Gazette, and telegram.com, for the answer.
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