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-Otasco, some really cool tool/technology store if I remember right, I remember getting a cool toy chainsaw with a working pullcord there
-The Record Bar, before it was turned into Blockbuster sometime around 1990. Back then we'd buy stylus for our record players there. Now I have to special order em' (groan).
-Blockbuster Music, They were my #1 hangout in the mid 90's besides guitar stores. Back when Retro-things were in their infancy. Then they renamed it something else for a brief while, now they are an FYE.
-The Bookworm, I think it was called, the little book store in our mall that had all kinds of cool books and toys and stuff. No coffee shops, no frills, just a plain white-walled book store. However, I like the smell of a Starbucks infested Barnes and Nobile better.
-Loy's Office Supply, some little office store in the valley where mom bought refills for her work pens (yes, there are pens that had refills, Parker T jotters I think they were called).
-Raxx's Restaraunt, I've never seen once since 1990, they had good burgers. The building is now some kind of college town type restaraunt that's locally owned.
-Food Max, I was always buying magazines there. That was THE food store during the early 1990's. Now they changed the name to Food World, customer service turned to crap, the conditions of the building have gone WAAAY down, and they are always hiring due to a****** management (I iknow because I interviewed with them at 16 and I got into a bit of an arguement during the interview of which was unavoidable).
-Mr. J's Steakhouse, I think it was called. It was right across from the school when I was in 3rd grade, we'd go there as a class for ice cream sometimes during school hours on special occasions, though I'm not totally sure what special occasion that was anymore. Then they shut it down, opened up a really cool all-you-can-eat buffet, and I ate there for awhile, now I dunno what they are doing.
- Crossroads Music. I started playing guitar in 1994, and we had 2 shops, this one and the Guitar Shoppe who've grown to be like a mom and pop version of Guitar Center (good stock w/ way better staff). Crossroads had 2 locations at first, one near my middle school, the other downtown near the college. Soon they changed hands, pissed a lot of people off with their snobbery, and lost business, where they were sold to a third hand, where it eventually sold out. The expansion they had is now a cigar store, and the store next door, I think it was being turned into a Bike shop or something like that. They got rid of the one near my school about 2 years in.
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