Louie Doobrow (1905-1980), the son of Russian immigrants Joseph Doobrow (1873-1945) and Mary Goldberg (1877-1955), grew up in Charleston, where he worked at his parents’ grocery store on Inspection Street. By 1923, he was a clerk at Stand Shoe Store. On July 30, 1928, he married Gussie Mendelson (1906-1981), a native of Warsaw, Poland who immigrated in 1916. In 1930, he opened L. Doobrow Grocery at 31 Elizabeth Street in 1930. He remained in business for four years before assuming management of the Eagle News Stand at 411 ½ King Street.