Albuquerque used to have “Stomps & Threads” which sold shoes and costumes to strippers. I never got around to stopping in before a fire shut them down.
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Those must have been some really hot outfits…
[sub]Maybe that’s what was really stored under the I-85 bridge in Atlanta[/sub]
No, they actually repair speedometers.
Replacing your whole dash is expensive, rebuilding your mechanical speedo is not.
Any of them that i know of, the only way you are getting a zero odometer is you had it replaced, and then you had to sign a form stating such.
The Broadway play “Kinky Boots” is based on a real-life English shoe factory that specializes in footwear for shoe fetishists. In the play, the factory makes boots for drag queens.
Here’s one that wouldn’t have been odd forty years ago:
It’s not just a repair shop. They sell old typewriters to collectors.
Someone made a documentary about this place. It’s currently showing on the festival circuit.
I was in a mall near San Francisco and they had one of those ‘kiosks or stands’ (I don’t know the proper term, they are in the hallways between stores) and it sold only Mustard. Apparently there are over 100 types all homemade…
Was it next to a hot dog stad?
There are one or two little shops like this in Bangkok’s Patpong red-light area.
I’ll only go the week they sell Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.
But I can’t read!
Makes sense. After all, you can only red one book at any given moment.
But what do you do if you want to read it again and they aren’t selling it that week?
I remember them from when I was a kid! They’d advertise on the local independent station (KPHO) and the ad was always the same: Fade in to a box with a castor mounted upside down on it with the wheel rapidly spinning. It would gradually slow down while the announcer would exclaim, “Luna! L-U-N-A! Luna for your truck and castor needs!” and on in a similar vein until a dissolve to a card with the logo, address, and phone number on it.
This was before tape so I’m sure it was done live with some stage hand giving the wheel a spin just before the camera came on.
When I lived in NYC there was a store called “Think Big!” Because that’s what they did.
That’s what they did until they closed.
I am greatly (hugely? :D) pleased to see that Think Big is now online as “Great Big Stuff.”
Probably the most specialized store I’ve ever been in was a store that just sold Sci-fi and Fantasy books.
There’s a light bulb store near me.
I’ve actually seen a lot of hot sauce stores.
Also two different stores that just sold things made out of brass.
A store that just sold replicas of weapons.
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A Change of Hobbit in Southern California lasted 19 years. “The Other Change of Hobbit”, in the Bay Area, is still open, although now it appears that it’s only online.
I have lurked in the SDMB forever and never had anything worth contributing until today.
Loveland, Colorado: Probasco’s Bibles and Wigs
I’ll go back to the dark corner now and keep quiet.
I was in the Ozarks once and went into a general store that apparently only sold two things, shovels and religious VHS tapes, and this was in 2009.
How in the heck did I never hear of that place? I’ve been to many Berkeley bookstores, often buying in those genres.
Aww, Shakespeare’s closed a couple years ago too.
I know a place that sells mainly guns, porn, and liquor. If they rented rooms there would be no reason to go anywhere else.
I’m working in Vegas this week and walked past the Beef Jerky Store while doing the tourist thing the other night.