The grocery store was located across the street from the home of cabinetmaker inlayer and local historian Henri Baumer and painter Philippe Steinmetz (17 rue des Charrons, now the city museum "Maison des arts"). Near the boarding school where I had to purge my daily scholastic punishment, I stopped at Scheibling's grocery store, a competitor of Haeringer's grocer. His store was located on the corner of rue des Charrons and rue de la Couronne, across the street from the home of the famous painter and inlayer Henri Baumer. I used to go there to buy cheaply some pink sugar jujubes - Zuckerbibblé in Alsatian - that would console my boredom at recess and earn the esteem of the bad boys with whom I shared those infamous colored sweets, which were stinging on my fingers, staining the collars of our pleated shirts and our sturdy black cotton school aprons, tight at the hips and with the sleeves always too long and rolled up to the elbow, which we would use at least until the end of the following year.