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There's some interesting art gallerys, and "eccentric" furniture stores around here. Coffee shops are great too. Uhm. Yeah.
pseudomuffin / 2002-05-17 18:01:15Studio Brillantine on Queen West always has neat stuff. Most of it is stuff that I don't know I want until I see it, and then I can't really afford it, so I think it is an evil store. But with interesting things in it(artwork,gadgets, books, you know--stuff)
sam / 2002-05-17 18:03:50La Luz De Jesus in Los Angeles. It's your typical freak books, desk toys, incense, assorted crapola, with an art gallery in the center. Last time I was there both Shag and Mark Ryden had their work up. My favorite name for a store is The Signtist. They make signs and lighting. That's really neither here nor there but I think it's neat. The Signtist.
Andre Torrez / 2002-05-17 18:17:23i want to open up a store. it'd be a clothing store - recycled clothing, used, abused, altered, hand-made, clearance new....everything pretty. i'd have it in a small house, with each room having a different theme....wooden screens for change rooms, couches and soft chairs, christmas lights all around, embroidered pillows and scarves on the ceiling. intricate jewlery and guazy fairy wings and flower crowns. and free tea and cookies. day in and out. so that people would just stay, and sit and talk with me. maybe read poetry or talk love and politics........(o la, i'm a dreamer...now, i should dream some money...)
meredith / 2002-05-17 19:57:38I've never heard complaints about ice cream shops. They're fun.
Milquetoast / 2002-05-17 20:22:29Isn't it everyone's dream to own an adult novelty store?
damik / 2002-05-18 11:11:06A laundromat that serves drinks. Money in the bank -- All coins. You're welcome.
Poops McGee / 2002-05-18 13:29:48UPDATE: i'm sort of leaning toward a maternity store right now.
andrew / 2002-05-18 13:32:49Wigs and Tanning.
Kate / 2002-05-18 13:58:43Play It Again Kids is a high quality used kids clothes and furniture store. It might be a franchise in the States.
BC / 2002-05-18 22:40:52I live near a combined medical supply/hardware/party store. Also, there is another hardware store that only sells tools and stuff acquired in giant batches at an auction. As you'd expect, there's sometimes some weird shit there. There's also a cowboy clothing store that has cowboy boots made especially for Andre the Giant by the owner. You couldn't have those boots but you could start selling cowboy clothes. Oh, there's also a combined smoothie/coffee bar/manicurist/tanning salon. You minmize risk by diversifying your business!
kevin / 2002-05-19 10:56:50there is a store off of downtown here that, on the top level, sells 80s toys. EVERYTHING from the 80's is sold there, Gem and the Rockers dolls, popples, garbage pail kids card, carebears, Transformers, transformers movies, ninja turtles, etc. I bought a bunch of GPK cards for dirt cheap. Right under that level is where they sell all records. Records of EVERYTHING, and theres always guys in there playing the guitar and just singing and making up stuff, and the level below that there is a bunch of thrift clothing. It isn't just any cothing either, its really really cool kind and all of it is from before the 70's. I LOVE THAT PLACE. ohh!! theres also a bunch of stores that sell foreign candy/foods. I love those stores, the asian and russian ones in particular are my favorite. Haha, theres also a store that sells Stripper clothing, its funny. I really like the health food stores a lot too. thats about all i feel like thinking about
erica / 2002-05-19 17:06:01it occurs to me that there isnt any music/musical instrument store specifically for kids.
Bill / 2002-05-19 21:03:01I live in Baltimore where Fell's Point is a big bar/restaurant/neat-little-shop area. The one that I've never been to is called Fell's Point Coffee and Cheese. Coffee? *And* cheese? Two things you'd never expect to see together - like Whitney Houston and a 'I hate weed' tshirt.
Mike / 2002-05-20 10:41:52Maternity wear and helmets of all sorts.
Madame Pierce / 2002-05-20 11:30:24ice cream stores are alright, except when you have to make waffle cones for six hours. ugh. it's fun going home all sticky and smelling like ice cream though :) there's a store i like to go to called stories. it's basically a comic book shop, but it also has used books, cds and videos. and porn in the back!
kenny / 2002-05-20 17:00:52just sell everything. like these guys: http://www.sciplus.com/
kristyn / 2002-05-20 17:56:32I saw diaryland.com mentioned in "Time" magazine. Oh yeah, and "Great Turtle Toys" of Mackinac Island, MI is the best as far as retail shops go.
Olivia / 2002-05-21 10:20:00ice cream stores can be really gross. my wife worked in one, and the whole magic of ice cream got old really fast, and it's pretty messy. and if you decide to have that frozen yogurt (soft serve) stuff, it gets REALLY gross, because those machines are really hard to clean properly, so your staff will skip on doing it when you (if you are the owner) are not there.
chris / 2002-05-21 13:20:17The neatest stores in this area are The Christmas Tree Shop. It isn't just for Christmas. The sell tons of everything but at huge discounts because they buy in bulk. It's not like athe dollar store, which is mostly cheap stuff. It's better quality. They are always packed.
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Chocolate Bar / 2002-05-21 17:19:40sell booze
claire / 2002-05-21 19:44:28There was a store around here that sold Millennium souvenirs, but I think they went out of business.
Dan / 2002-05-22 14:59:15Think about a lifestyle store, ranging from supplements, food, kitchen wares, clothings, cosmetics........oh wait... what about this.....Think about things that people buy everyday, which u dont need to convince them to buy. like food.......nearby where i work, there is a very popular cafe, all sorts of food, including heavy food. also titbits .. chocolates, swets, candies.. they also have own bakery... breads, cakes, buns, pastries, danish... n all kinds of beverages too, not forgetting mineral water. um how about that?
lightofglory / 2002-05-22 23:38:37there's a store here called wigs! wigs! wigs! i bet you can't guess what they sell.
elizabitch! / 2002-05-23 01:25:58Here in Seattle there are at least two stores that sell rubber stamps as their mainstay, and there's also a store that only sells bookcases.
bob / 2002-05-23 13:51:02there's supposed to be some sort of celtic store around here . . . but of course I'm obsessed with anything celtic . . . so yeah
Rose / 2002-05-23 16:17:21You're a dick
Dave / 2002-05-23 18:23:08Downtown in Chicago there's a place next to the Cub's stadium called "Strange Cargo." It's got all sorts of neat retro trinkets and tons of used vintage clothing and shoes and such. I make 2 hour trips just to go there.
matt / 2002-05-23 20:29:41I always dreamed of opening a little book store, kind of the literature equivalent of the record store in 'High Fidelity'. A sort of little shop where regular customers could come in and sit on couches and read the books, like a mini, very personal Chapters/Indigo kind of thing. That'd be a fun one, and if you opened it in a college or university kind of area then you could become great friends with the neat students who would frequent your shop. That would be great fun, I think.
erinluv / 2002-05-23 20:38:21Open a store that sells wacky stuff like the nuts at Archie Mcphee. Check out their website, they're awesome! ~Kim
justjones / 2002-05-23 23:19:25Fuck, I just realized... I AM a dick!
Andrew / 2002-05-23 23:37:04if i had a store i would sell only things i make, i would have to wait a while to make enough inventory, but because of the bizarreness of the whole idea of only selling things that i make and the fact that all the things i make are sort of weird anyway it would succeed. people would buy the things i make. when i got tired i would close it and eat ice cream and drink coffee and think about the way that girl hair smells, shampoo and flowers and happiness.
drew / 2002-05-23 23:45:14I could use a sleep store.
Travis / 2002-05-24 01:18:15there's a store nearby called "Bone Appetite". It's a doggie bakery/gormet shop. It's really expensive... all the rich people with their little foo foo dogs go in there and pay ridiculous amounts of money for biscuits that cost 10 cents to make. Brilliant, if you ask me. Stupid rich people.
booga / 2002-05-24 05:12:41Sock shops are very very fun! We used to have one (in Brisbane, Australia) but now we don't. Only the lucky folk in Sydney and Melbourne do. But it was totally rad!
Claire / 2002-05-24 06:35:22well when I was a little girl, there was a really swell store down the road called "General Store." It sold things like lard and pitchforks and and wagon wheels and and cream and saddles and pennycandy. It was run by a really nice old man named Mr. Olsen. He sure had a real bitch wife and daughter though.
gooserina / 2002-05-31 16:14:50hey, andrew, eat a dick looking forward to the camping trip next month!
harsh / 2002-06-05 00:34:03dear andy panda, not far from my home is the brick building that houses major surplus. they stock all sorts of military surplus gear and uniforms and mre's (meals, ready to eat) and water purifying gear and various camping gear, so that when the pakistanis and the indians open up on each other, everyone who shopped at at major surplus and hid in their underground shelters will stay alive for a little while longer and witness the birth of the zombie braineaters who will roam the earth, looking for brains to eat. good luck, andrew. zombie braineaters won't be stopped by your puny mounties! hahahahhahahah!
zachary smith / 2002-06-06 02:31:13if you are leaning toward maternity i think you can franchise A Pea in the Pod. at least that's a maternity store around here.
luck / 2002-06-06 21:30:28I have just moved to a new town and there is a hydroponics shop, which everyone knows what hydroponics are used for, but this shop is proud to advertise it because the name of the buisiness is "off ya tree". Oh and I was travelling through a small country town and there was a sign on a shop that said " fish and chips,sandwiches and ammo"
Leona / 2002-06-14 01:08:28There is a village near me called "Glutton" (this is true!) and I always wanted to open a sado masochistic brothel there so I could sell car stickers that said "I went to Glutton for punishment"
puppett / 2002-06-29 23:49:13you probably won't ever read this, but a bloke in my home town (exeter, in the UK)has a shop called "kitsch-u-like". it's really cool, and has all kinds of stuff in it, bar-stools, plastic flamingo things and stuff. we also have a shop called "the real mccoy", which sells all retro clothes, shoes, jewellery and stuff. that's pretty cool too.
hannah / 2003-07-14 06:49:03you probably won't ever read this, but a bloke in my home town (exeter, in the UK)has a shop called "kitsch-u-like". it's really cool, and has all kinds of stuff in it, bar-stools, plastic flamingo things and stuff. we also have a shop called "the real mccoy", which sells all retro clothes, shoes, jewellery and stuff. that's pretty cool too.
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