Word: schiller
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...business became more successful, Schiller opened a store in Brookline in the mid-1980s, later closing that branch to open another store on Newbury Street, in downtown Boston...
...During the life of the store it’s changed three or four or five times,” Schiller says...
Little Russia came to Harvard Square in the mid-1970s, when Schiller rented a storefront in the Garage so small that he had to put his items on a pushcart and roll it into the hall to sell. In 1978 the store jumped to its current building on Mt. Auburn Street...
...store expanded to sell semiprecious jewelry, and Schiller began selling jewelry that his friends made, using his wife’s designs. He later sold beads and offered classes in the Brookline store to teach customers how to make their own necklaces, and added a new line of jewelry from Africa, Asia, Greece and other far-flung locales...
...November 1992 a fire destroyed the Mt. Auburn Street building and all the merchandise in it, eventually prompting Schiller to close the second store in Boston and move all the inventory to his rebuilt Cambridge store...