(An introduction to C.C. and Jane Hallinan — and their business — can be found in The Little Shop on Erie St., located here.)
C.C. and Jennie Hallinan closed the greenhouse and nursery in 1943, when their younger son (and business partner), Art, was drafted into military service during World War II: the work was too much for them alone, and the war's tight labor market made it difficult to find able-bodied hired hands. They kept the flower shop open. By the time Art was discharged from the Army in 1946, however, he had decided to pursue a career in accounting. With some regret, C.C. and Jennie, now in their seventies, chose to close the shop and retire, to "take it easy and do a little traveling," as they told the Painesville Telegraph.
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| The Hallinans in 1946. |
