Growing up in Encino, Nancy Silverton remembers shopping at small businesses with her parents. Unlike the Encino of today, populated by mini-malls, it was a town of tiny shops and markets, like the family-owned Jurgensen’s Grocery Company, Owl Rexall pharmacy and Gibson Girl boutique.
Silverton’s maternal grandfather was a doctor in Yonkers, New York, who practiced out of an office above their home. Her paternal grandfather was a jeweler in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, whose shop was the community gathering place. Her parents were “small-town people.”
Although she wanted to, Silverton never went into a department store or a fast-food chain restaurant—until much later in life. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 