They didn’t have Wi-Fi when this opened.
An 168-year-old basic retailer on Lengthy Island — which is the longest working enterprise of its sort in the complete nation — is having a viral second due to historical past lovers who’re making this quaint slice of the previous pattern within the twenty first Century.
The 2-story St. James Common Retailer, which was inbuilt 1857 by the Smith household — who famously based close by Smithtown — was the main target of a social media sequence episode on its distinctive lore by Hamptons-based videographer Jim Christiano, which drew hundreds of viewers.
