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D&S Fine Foods

I would like to thank Paul Posadas for sharing with me his pictures of D&S Fine Foods and allowing me to post them on my blog. (This is also my way of letting you know that I could not have take these pictures as I was probably very young at the time they were taken.)

D&S was a grocery located along Session Road that had huge bay windows that allowed you to, from the outside, look at the wonderful things sold inside the grocery.  D&S had a high ceiling, which gave the place a feeling of vast space.  Inside, its shelves were always stocked with interesting items like rare chocolate.  On the mezzanine of D&S, there were tons of school supplies, appliances and toys.  As the cashier was located on the first floor, the items that customers would pick from the mezzanine would be placed in a basket that was tied to a rope.  That basket would then be thrown over the baluster of the stairs leading to the mezzanine and lowered down from there to the cashier.   I was always excited to go to D&S  with my mom or grandmother as they would always buy me a toy or candy from there.

Although I cannot remember every detail about D&S, I do remember that I was always happy when I would go there.  Unfortunately, when I was in high school, D&S caught fire, burned and was never rebuilt.  It is such a pity.  Baguio was never the same without it.