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You saw the House. Now meet the Store.

Almost didn't beat the clock to get this one up before the weekend ends, but here it is -- an almost-sequel to the House article, it's....The Store! Yes, on the way home from the House, we met the Store. The Store is also known as "Gizmos & Gadgets," and it's got everything. Just a step above a thrift shop, it's the place that gave me WWF loot bags, Dinosaurs Attack! cards and a black licorice pipe that I completely forgot to mention in the article. Go check out the goods! Envy the crap I have no place for! Make outrageous monetary offers!

Posted by Matt on 05/01/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 125 comments

Haha, my dad always eats those licorice pipe things. He gets them at some old-style candy store. I don’t really like licorice.

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 05/02/2005 12:58 PM

I SO wish I knew about those Dinosaur Attacks cards! I would NOT have been scarred by them.

Anyway, you lead such a rich life, Matt. I wish I found places like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/02/2005 1:25 AM

Hey Yeti,

Awesome story. I’m currently in Germany (Cologne is about an hour or two away from Frankfurt), how old do you think your drug dealer friend is?

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/02/2005 2:08 AM

Is it just my imagination or is the Superfly guy from the WWF bag grabbing himself?

Chestnuts roasted by springsprite @ 05/02/2005 2:12 AM

Wasn’t the reference to The Red Dragon Inn and disappearing into a cloud of sulphur in regards to "LORD" (Legend of the Red Dragon), a popular BBS door game of years gone by?

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 05/02/2005 2:12 AM

I remember ghost paws my mom sewed some to my homemade witch costume.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 05/02/2005 2:13 AM

yay for Captain Power cheap stuff, most of his stuff usually started at seven bucks plus. Did you know that there was a captain power laser tag type clone with wearable shield points taking thing as well as the other vehicle and throne things? and now this! woah. this site is a breath of fun air. Those card treats rocked. I need to go shopping tommorow. I need to find more old computers.
I would like to dedicate this post to Mike, of Mike’s Surplus in Lower Lake California, who ran a surplus store and curiosity /etc. shop, who was my friend, who i bought many toys from and comics, and my Zaxxon arcade game, who passed away as result of cancer about 4 or 5 weeks ago and will be missed. People who love things like all of us here who rummage through shops looking for toys and games and stuff, we all keep that spirit of fun alive. Thanks Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Obelisk @ 05/02/2005 2:45 AM

Sweet, you played L.O.R.D. too! Oh god, this is the best article ever. The Captain Power masks and the Turtle postcards are excellent.
The Legend of the Red Dragon reference just totally makes it.

(Between this and the Casino Arcades article I’m beginning to wonder if you followed me throughout my own childhood).

Chestnuts roasted by Anne Packrat @ 05/02/2005 3:00 AM

Those Dinosaur cards were great. Definately the most gory trading cards I had as a kid. Even worse than garbage pail kids!!

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 05/02/2005 7:33 AM

I’m a pretty huge packrat, I’ll admit it. My room is in desperate need of cleaning and I just keep accumulating crap I don’t need and huge, tumbleweed-like tufts of dog hair. I like neat, useless crap. And when I clicked on the "Drop a comment" link at the bottom of the article, only then did I realize how jealous I am of you for finding this place. In retrospect, I think it really started to set in around the time the Nintendo-themed stuff showed up. You’re a lucky guy.

I never had the misfortune of being exposed to those Dinosaurs Attack cards when I was a kid, but I can see what you’re talking about. That kind of stuff scared the shit out of me when I was little. Even some of the Garbage Pail Kids cards were too much for my young, fragile mind. As fascinated by them as I am now, they would have scarred me, no doubt. Hell, I might have nightmares tonight!

And a 20-minute limit?! Perhaps you should rethink your classification of these people as "friends".

Great article. Huge flood of nostalgia.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 05/02/2005 7:39 AM

Holy Shitballs, I was trying to remember that series of dinosaur cards about a month ago and no one knew what the hell I was talking about!

Thanks for the memories! (Hey, scan all those cards to save them for the ages!)

Chestnuts roasted by drstupid @ 05/02/2005 8:38 AM

Sounds like Matt had a pretty good haul. But…am I the only one wondering what was left behind? Hey Matt, how about you run a follow-up article with pics of stuff you didn’t originally notice until looking through your snapshots?

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 05/02/2005 8:51 AM

"Red Dragon Inn" is a reference to the roleplaying AOL chatroom of old. I don’t know if it’s still around, but wouldn’t be surprised.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/02/2005 9:27 AM

EMajorwitz,
Gabriel the drug-dealer was seventeen back in 2001, so I suppose, if my math is correct, he’d be around twenty-one years old nowadays. He never actually admitted to selling drugs, but I was able to put two and two together when I found out he had his own flat and his only "official" source of income was a part-time job at a comic-book store.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/02/2005 9:39 AM

By the way, EMajorwitz, my favorite part of Germany was the beer-halls of Munich. I always felt like a viking or some other kind of barbarian whenever I would drink there because of the huge wooden tables, smoke-stained walls, and freakishly large stiens of beer. Do you ever find yourself in Munich much?

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/02/2005 9:49 AM

Lazertag RULED! Man .. maybe I need to trek out to some old shack and look for tablecloths ..

Matt, how much for the lazertag tablecloths?

Chestnuts roasted by Brett @ 05/02/2005 10:38 AM

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/331.html">Why This Game Does Nothing To Help Michael’s Dubious Reputation: An article for the times.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/02/2005 10:46 AM

Matt! I found a Royal Guardsman the other day, but he was blue! What the fuck!!

Chestnuts roasted by iwasalion @ 05/02/2005 11:51 AM

Great article again. Great grabs for just 20 minutes. Just imagine the finds if you have more time. I don’t think we could handle that. Anyway, just needed to let the XE crowd know that kellogg’s CORN POPS cereal is giving away Light Saber spoons. I purchased mine this weekend and it just seems so XE in nature that I had to share. Get yours asap.

Chestnuts roasted by Tigerfan @ 05/02/2005 11:54 AM

Woo-ha! Love those old junk shops! I was sorta kidding (sorta) when I said M-to the-A-to the old double-T was a Pop Culture Indiana Jones. (we named the dog Indiana) When Little Brother and his Little Woman are down from Kansas, one of the first things we do is go cruise second-hand stores and GoodWills. Once I missed out getting a Fisher-Price PXL camera because none of us had enough money altogether to get it. Another time, ther was a creepy old lady always coming up from behind us, talking to herself. And, she sounded like the pinheads in "Freaks." Who knows, she might be behind you even now.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/02/2005 11:55 AM

I liked the Legend of the Red Dragon reference.

Chestnuts roasted by Ron @ 05/02/2005 12:56 PM

I, too, thought the "Red Dragon Inn" comment was a reference to L.O.R.D.. HAHA, it seems like I’m not the only one on the board to do so. I’m glad there are a lot of other people that have fond memories of that game. Ah, the BBS days…

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 05/02/2005 1:15 PM

I love food fighters you son of a bitch.

Chestnuts roasted by jman @ 05/02/2005 1:33 PM

I used to have the complete Dinosaurs Attack set and they were the most gruesome depictions of horrific death I had ever seen up until that point. For some reason I really liked them – not necessarily because of all the blood but all the detail. I hope they’re still somehow at my parents’ house.

Chestnuts roasted by J. @ 05/02/2005 1:52 PM

Yo Yeti,

No, I haven’t beem able to frequent much of Germany yet. We have been here since last August and I still don’t know the language.

Plus, with my wife expecting and me being a lightweight drinking former Marine, I just don’t think it would be fair to her.

My wife teaches elementary school in Butzbach while I play club football (tackle, yes!!!) here in Giessen. Check us out on the web (www.giessen-dragons.de), I’m tje QB, #12 on the Mens (Herren) team.

Yes, they do love their beer here. It sure was wild for Fasching…

Sorry to hear that he was a druggie. Most of the former team before I got here was, so they kicked them out and moved to Giessen.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/02/2005 2:39 PM

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