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2020 marks 20 years since the inception of AncientFaces. We are the same team who began this community so long ago. Over the years it feels, at least to us, that our family has expanded to include so many. Thank you!

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Irene Helen (Strauch) Ontko Dec 18 - 2006 Garden City, Michigan, United States

When Irene worked at S.S. Kresge in Detroit one of her jobs was ordering stock. One day instead of ordering twelve dozen cartons of bobby pins she accidentally ordered "twelve dozen gross cartons". When the stock arrived her boss gave her the dickens for ordering so many. However, now WWII was on....rationing started.....one simply couldn't find bobby pins because steel was precious....but Kresge in Detroit had them throughout the war, customers came from far and wide to buy them. And everyone wondered how only that Kresge could get bobby pins when no other store could!

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