Hooper's Store is what all good communities and neighborhoods require - a gathering place. In Sesame Street Unpaved, David Borgenicht writes: Over the course of the show, the store often acts as a gathering spot for the characters. "It gave us a wonderful location both for comedy and curriculum-driven bits," Stone said. Stone asked Rosen to build into the set what ultimately became Hooper's Store. At that time in Bronx sociological history, the owner of such a business would likely have been male, Caucasian, and Jewish. There would be an older proprietor of a neighborhood variety store, the type that had a soda fountain with pedestal stools. In Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Michael Davis notes that the store was one of the early core concepts that producer Jon Stone brought to the show: Along with traditional American diner-type food, the store sold a wide range of goods from dry goods to soap dishes and stranger goods such as empty cigar boxes (in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street) and birdseed milkshakes for Big Bird. In canon, the food menu was extensive and suited to the different characters that lived on Sesame Street, a fictional Manhattan street. Harold Hooper in 1951 as a general store. The fictional store was said to be founded by Mr. Hooper ( Will Lee) and his store in its earlier days as a candy shop/soda fountain/general store
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