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...went to Drip because it sounded like a gas, something different to do," says widowed kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams Florsheim, 58. She had her first date with divorced accountant Henry Florsheim, 54, at the cafe in 1999. She had asked to meet him after reading his profile. They were married a year later and now live in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you had told me that I would meet my husband through a place like Drip," she says, "I would have said you had to be kidding...
Whatever method you use to meet other singles, keeping an open mind is always the best advice. "Dating today is nothing like when I was a girl," says Williams Florsheim. "It's a whole new world out there, and you just never know where you will wind up meeting someone...
...Galleria is so ghostly quiet you're tempted to do a grave dance and let it echo to the rafters. It has the feel of a thousand downtown shopping districts sucked dry by indistinguishable beasts like this one. Foot Locker, Structure and Florsheim Shoes sit empty. Victoria's Secret is naked. Only a handful of the 120 stores are still open, Orange Julius and Howick's Fine Gifts & Jewelry among them, but they'll soon be gone, and an 18-month renovation will turn the space into an office center with a few shops and restaurants...
...some companies, debt was a by-product of attempts to escape takeover raids. Interco, a St. Louis-based conglomerate whose holdings include the Converse and Florsheim shoe companies, borrowed $1.9 billion in 1988 to fend off a hostile bid. Interco said last month that it was willing to give creditors a controlling interest in the firm to avoid bankruptcy court...
Under the fluourescent "FLO" of the Florsheim'sShoes sign was the jewellers' beautifully carvedmarble entrance; a tiny door led into a lobby withtwo brass elevators. I wanted Farr Bros., on the8th; the elevator doors opened into a slightlyancient little world completely removed from theglitz eight stories below. There were six or sevenglass and wood doors in the hallway. Next to theelevator, which had bare blue and red bulbs forits up/down signals, was a glass mail chute with abrass-embossed eagle on the slot...