Meet the Author of Jacobson's: I miss it so!

Historian and author Bruce Allen Kopytek is coming to the Carnegie Branch of the Jackson District Library on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm to talk about his recently published book Jacobson's: I miss it so!

An expert on the vanishing department store, Bruce writes a blog called The Department Store Museum.

Last night he was honored along with others in Lansing for having a book selected as one of the twenty chosen for the Michigan Notable Books list.

Call the Reference Department to make a reservation today! Space is limited. Call 517-788-4087, ext. 1339.

Jacobson's: I Miss it So!

For all of you who loved and shopped Jacobson's, here is good news. Jacobson's: I Miss It So!: The Story of a Michigan Fashion Institution is due out September 23, 2011. Author Bruce Allen Kopytek interviewed many staff who remember when there was no place better to be. 

"Join department store historian Bruce Allen Kopytek in this return to the elegance of Jacobson's, a beloved Michigan institution for well over one hundred years. Reenter the marvelous stores and meet the personalities who transformed Jacobson's from its humble Reed City origins to a staple of sophistication throughout the region and in Florida. The brainchild of a retail genius, this deluxe specialty store gave customers a peerless social, shopping and dining destination. Experience anew the refined beauty of its Williamsburg-style Grosse Pointe store, the chic designer world of its Birmingham ensemble or the charm and allure of its original Florida branch in Sarasota revealing along the way, secrets that made Jake's the dazzling store it was and why it remains so profoundly missed by anyone who entered through its solid wooden doors."