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A Shell Bazaar postcard from the late 1970s. An early photo, right, before the garages were utilized and the shell was installed.
are selling the 99-cent key chains or the $2.99 items,” Christine
“I didn’t realize that my hearing loss was affecting me until it began affecting him.
That’s when I made the choice to take charge of my hearing.”
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said with a chuckle.
Through good times and bad, Christine has loved her store.
As bad as the hurricanes — Jeanne and Frances — were to
her shop in 2004 (it was closed for 18 months for renovations),
the time had a happy ending.
Grabhorn, who was Christine’s high school sweetheart and
worked on the ranch with her father, came home to help his
mother clean up and reconnected with her. After three years
of a long distance romance, Grabhorn retired from Newsday
newspapers on Long Island, N.Y., and moved back to help
run the shop.
The two live above the shop in the three-bedroom apartment
where Christine was born. She never had children, but
she and Grabhorn have added two young employees, who
have worked for them for the last five years, to the trust to
continue on. Sherry Santino and Dylan Kelley are as close as
family and they know the two will run the shop as if it were
their own.
“I believe ours is the last place still around from the ’50s
and ’60s,” Christine said. “Dylan and Sherry are the future.
People may think that working in a shell shop is fun, but it
is a lot of hard work and they continue the tradition of being
friendly and welcoming.” >>
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