The small sign marking the former location of Downtown’s “National Shirt Shop” is on the building at the southeast corner of Laura and Monroe streets. The store sold men’s shirts, neckties and handkerchiefs. Roy Thomas, owner of Jacobs Jewelers, said the store was already open and thriving when he first went into business Downtown operating the jewelry store at Cohen’s department store in 1959. He recalled the specialty clothing store closed sometime in the late 1960s.
