Great Impressions

"For my first-ever retail job, I worked at this busy card and gift shop located in the city's historic financial district, a few blocks from the Inner Harbor waterfront. Based on a New York store, this shop was a popular place for local business workers to find very unique cards, gifts, stationery, and custom gift wrapping services. After working part-time, I briefly worked there full-time for a period, and later assisted in opening and closing the store on Saturdays. (A few years later, my second retail experience was a part-time job at Kitchen Bazaar in Harborplace)... Great Impressions was later sold and eventually closed. Today the building, constructed in 1904, has returned to its original function as a tavern."

‏Photo from Maryland Historic Trust building survey