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Jr.’s Is a Gift Shop With Pizzazz
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The award-winning window displays are the first clue that Jr.’s General Store is not the “little bit of everything” general-interest store of old.
A gift shop with pizzazz, Jr.’s opened on Main Street in September 2006, and it recently relocated to a larger space in the Proctor-Bosley House to have a little more elbow room, says Kelly Miller, the “Jr.” of the store’s name. He owns the shop along with Tim Robbins, Bennie Thompson and George Thompson.
“We needed more space, and we also needed some more parking,” Miller says. “When you sell tables, chairs, lamps and 300-pound birdbaths, you don’t want people to have to go very far to load it up.”
If you’re in the market for something a little less cumbersome, no worries. Jr.’s carries everything from baby hats to handmade photo-box frames. The store also offers party planning, wedding planning, flowers and other specialty services.
“When I moved here from New York, I wanted to be able to have a small store in a really nice town,” Miller says. “Both of those statements have come true. What we’ve done here is really special.”
Story by Joe Morris
