Dawid Symcha Mandelbaum’s wine store, in turn, was located at number 13, where the owner’s wife Regina later opened an accessories store. The owner was the grandfather of the aforementioned Krystyna Modrzewska.My grandmother greatly valued her own status of a merchant and did her best to maintain it at a proper level. Formally dressed and powdered up delicately, with her raven-black locks freshly curled, she would leave for her post after an early breakfast. Stocky and none too shapely, she would briskly walk the short distance of Namiestnikowska Street [modern-day Narutowicza Street] to the corner of Pijarska Street, with her cane in hand, and then along the narrow pavement leading her straight to the door of the shop on the opposite side of Krakowskie Przedmieście. Two big display windows flanking the door enraptured Lublin youngsters and aroused their desires, an experience they would remember many years later, for the assortment of the store, in addition to needlework materials, included toys of various size. (…) It was a veritable treasury. Teddy bears in lancer hats riding bicycles and dolls in various sizes and dresses, presenting different needlework patterns, as well as battalions of toy soldiers in Great War uniforms, climbing the mountains of colourful boxes with puzzles in them…Krystyna Modrzewska, Dom przy Bernardyńskiej (A House on Bernardyńska Street)