Our Lucky Winners!

Well, friends, the results are in, and pictured above are the
winning “ballots” for our Randhurst Book contest, in the order in which they were drawn!
Congratulations to Don Fields, Mel (of Ephemeraology fame), Pseudo3D,
Mygypsynature and Anna Banana!



If each of you would email me your address at pleasantfamilyshopping(at)hotmail(dot)com,
I’ll get your book packaged up and on its way to you!

Randhurst is 50!

Today marks another in a series of retail golden
anniversaries in a year already full of them. While less renowned than the
others we’ve talked about here in recent months, it’s the one closest to my
heart. Fifty years ago today, Randhurst Center, the “pinwheel on the prairie”
to cite one nickname from its early days, opened in Mount Prospect, Illinois, about
20 miles northwest of