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An independent clothing shop in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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An owner-run clothing shop, on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
Nearly all the clothing bought in this city is bought from national retailers at Cottonwood Centre or Eagle Landing, and none of those appear in this directory. The layer underneath is what the clothing category collects instead: independent boutiques in the downtown blocks and around District 1881, a strong consignment and second hand trade, and the western and workwear suppliers that a city where a great many people work outdoors or on a farm still supports. It is a short list next to a mall floor plan. Nearly every shop on it is one where the owner is likely to be the person behind the counter.
Lolly's is on the downtown side of the Hope Slough, in the oldest commercial part of the city. Five Corners anchors it, and the streets running off that junction carried the town's shopping for decades before the highway retail existed. District 1881 has since drawn a second cluster of food and small retail in a block or so over. The practical effect is that a shop down here sits among other shops, which is not true of the plaza retail further south, and browsing on foot is a reasonable way to find it.
No street number, telephone number or website comes with this record, only a postal code. That is common enough for a small independent and is not a mark against the place, but it does thin out the advice that can honestly be given. What the entry does establish is the trade and the part of town, and the downtown core is small enough that the two together amount to a workable direction. The code narrows things to a few blocks. Establishing the actual door, and whether the shop is open at the hour you intend to arrive, has to happen some other way, most likely by asking someone downtown who already knows.
In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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