Cindy Harwood
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Cindy Harwood
Twenty years as a clerk at Morton's. |
Cindy Harwood has a couple of good stories to tell after 20 years as a clerk at Morton’s. She spent the early years behind the elaborately stocked fine cosmetics and jewelry counter, both of which are no longer sold in the company’s stores. Then there were the days when the older customers still wrote out their checks to “Mort’s” and the bank would cash them.
One of Cindy’s strangest memories is from the time when Morton Drug Co. sold and delivered alcohol and tobacco to its customers. “We had a bad ice storm, and a lady over on Doty Avenue, just three blocks away, called and wanted a six pack of beer and a carton of cigarettes.”
She recalled that the driver was so incensed that a lady would call for these things that he put off her delivery until much later in the day. “She called me 14 times that day, looking for her beer and cigarettes!”
