Clinton St. Quarterly, Vol. 10 No. 1 | Spring 1988 (Twin Cities/Minneapolis-St. Paul) /// Issue 1 of 7 /// Master# 42 of 73

IM AG INE THA T which lies within, beneath this shrouded surface, thin. Resist the World and it will wait. Send a card saying you’ll be late. YOU COULD SLEEP WRAPPED IN A POEM EACH NIGHT. III A special item, exclusively ours an d yours, arriv ing in m idsummer of 1988: Cool, crisp all-cotton sheets, wound abou t with lovely verse. The first edition in a series of poetry-adorned bedding. Cream -co lored no-iron sheets by Martex , hand silk screened in pearly grey. If interested in this item, please mention it when you’re in, or call and we’ll d rop you a line when the sheets arrive. POLKA DOTS & MOONBEAMS IS GROWING WINGS. Very soon, ou r name, as well as our logo, will change. Polka D o ts & Moonbeam s (all 18 letters) has suited us well and faithfully for years. It has represented the fanciful and the whimsical, our comm itment to delight and intrigue , to soothe and to tickle. T h a t won’t change. O u r name is chang ing though , because we’re growing, we’re evolving along with you, and we feel the need now to acknowledge all of these changes. O u r new name, IM A G IN E TH A T , represents ou r own delight an d su rp rise a t our growth and po ten tia l. P ic tu re a favorite G re a t -A u n t clucking it a t you, as you finish a whopper of a story: Well, imagine th a t . O r th ink of it, fittingly, as the beginning, the O p en ing W o rd s of a story (our story and hopefully, your story, too); Imagine th a t you 're in a far-off land , in ano the r time and place, a ch ild a g a in . . . Indeed , imagine tha t. A R D W e’ve chosen a wing to rep resen t us now — a symbol of flight and of fancy (is it C u p id ’s, or one of four and twenty blackbirds — pe rhap s the Raven’s, o r th a t of a dove of peace). A wing suggests many things to many people; i t ’s open-ended , as we hope to remain. O f course, with change comes the recognition of things cons tan t and resolute. We will con tinue to search far and wide for ex trao rd ina ry cards an d pape r; for Tokens of Love and Affection. W e’ll hand -p ick the best in everything, from exotic forkloric a r t from H a i t i , to h an d -p a in ted cards by local artists . Each and every item is a story for the telling, a beginning, waiting for the ending to unfold. A ll told, the best is yet to come. * A R T S U R P R I S s "THE TWIN CITIES BEST CARD STORE" - MPLS./ST. PAUL MAGAZINE. ' IM A G IN E T H A T . 3039 HENNEPIN AVE. S. (next to Lotus Uptown) • 612-822-4144

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