We’re in the basement of the flagship Heights location of Tipton & Hurst at 1801 N. Grant St. in Little Rock, and it’s like an international bazaar. There are boxes from Colombia and Ecuador, and they’re filled with fresh flowers.
I’m being given a tour of the building by Howard Hurst, the president of Tipton & Hurst, one of Arkansas’ oldest family-owned businesses.
“There’s a jewelry store in Camden that’s older than we are [Stinson’s Jewelers, founded in 1850], but that’s about it as far as retailers go,” Hurst says. “Our business started on Main Street in 1886.”
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