Carithers department store is featured in the background of a scene in the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married", which was filmed, I believe in 1984 or 85. (It's possible that the filmmakers put the Carither's sign up on the building to make it appear as it did in the early 60's however.)

I'll bet that the Charles Store was a locally-owned department store, an extinct breed. Just down the pike from me in Petaluma, there was Carithers, of similar size and likewise in a prime downtown corner location and in an even more streamlined-moderne style building. The business itself went pffft probably in the 70s, I'd guess, but the building itself survives. But if you want me, I'll be over in the newsstand across the street.