http://wwno.org en http://wwno.org/post/fabric-connoisseur-our-midst <p>Whether you’re stopping in at Promenade fabric store on St. Charles Avenue for five yards of Chanel or a spool of thread, Herbert Halpern welcomes you warmly. He looks a little like a fashionable Albert Einstein.</p><p>For 45 years, he has minded and cultivated the store his father, Max Halpern, started in the late 1930s, steering it through some choppy waters. If businesses are forged on deep friendships over time, then Herbert has certainly got the goods.</p> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:00:00 +0000 Carol Pulitzer 26113 at http://wwno.org