When I was a kid there were two stores in our Bronx neighborhood we called the “five-and-dimes”. One was Woolworth which of course is a national chain, and the other was Fishers which I think was just a local store. Yet to my child’s sensibility they were both grand emporiums selling priceless treasures, and I remember shopping there with my grandmother. She and my grandfather lived about an hour away by car in Far Rockaway and of course we’d often visit back and forth. But...