Does anyone remember Kupperman's??

[justwondering]

One of the furniture stores in downtown Waukegan used to give high school girls a small cedar chest back in the sixties (when I got mine). I would imagine it was to encourage the girls to purchase their "hope" chests from them and eventually, when married, to purchase their furniture. Still in the mindset that when young ladies graduated from high school, that after a short time, they would be married and start a household. I am not sure if we received these as juniors or seniors BTW mine still sits on my dresser.