Making Cents: Gift Shop Emphasizes “Home-Grown Kind of Stuff”
Chesapeake, VA – The past and present have collided for Louise Franklin and she couldn’t be happier.
Franklin opened her store, Past & Present Gifts and Home Décor, on Nov. 15. She owns it with her husband, Adair, and manages it with her daughter, Brittney, 29.
Many years ago, Franklin and her sister frequented a store in Houston by the same name, which they both loved.
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📸: Photo courtesy of Anne Harrill.
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