Dick Stallone gave me my first job in Alaska in the fall of '74 in his then new and very fashionable store in trendy new University Center.   Stallone's was the high-fashion end of men's clothing in those days.   Kloppenstein's was in Sear's Mall, which was still "The Mall" in those days.  It was Value Mart across the street then, not Fred Meyer.   Seidenberg & Kay's (sp?) was still hanging in down on 4th Ave.   There really used to be retail downtown; I once shopped at Woolworths and the Rexall Drug store there, and still have a Mini-14 I bought at Penney's and a Buck knife I bought at the NC store, now Nordstrom's.   There were even two Montgomery Ward's in those days.

Dick is just about the last of the locally owned retail men's clothing in this town.   I know this piece is a bit self-serving, but the big chains have all but destroyed local retail; I don't begrudge them trying to fight back.