VLVL(6) Notes and Qs "Magnin's"

[Paul Mackin]

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Petto

>At 07:14 PM 11/30/98 -0500, davemarc wrote:
>
>>196.20  Magnin's - a big(?) fancy(?) NY department store,-- anything more
>>to be said on this subject?
>>
>>Magnin's in NY?  Fuhgeddaboutit.  There was a grand one in San Francisco
>>for many years.
>
>I need to read with my eyes uncrossed. It's clear now that I'm looking at
>it that Magnin's is a west coast establishment -- and from Zipi's vantage
>only good enough for a shopping center on Long Island. Which is to say if
>you're not *IN* NYC, you might as well be nowhere.


It's not enough to refer just to Magnin's, is it? (as P does) I Magnin and
Joseph Magnin were as I recall a cut apart. Joseph Magnin in San Francisco
was quite top drawer even by NY standards. I'm thinking back a ways of
course.

                            P.