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Gaming Stores of Present and Past

Started by mrk, April 01, 2009, 10:37:42 PM

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KrakaJak

#30
April 04, 2009, 04:51:12 PM
Quote from: Drohem;294143That's in San Dimas right?  I lived in Pamona for a while, right off the Indian Hills exit on the 10.  It was a crazy time, but I would ride my motorcycle to Glendale Community College daily, and pass the Old Towne mall all the time.  I frequented that shop while I lived in Pamona.
Actually, it here in Old Towne San Diego, just off the 8.
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Drohem

#31
April 05, 2009, 01:27:48 PM
Quote from: KrakaJak;294151Actually, it here in Old Towne San Diego, just off the 8.

Hehehehe...yeah, I am sure there are thousands of Old Towne districts in cities across the nation.

The Shaman

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April 06, 2009, 03:28:18 AM
The stores of my youth were The War Club in LCF and The Last Grenadier in Burbank - the latter's still around, I'm told.

I also frequented The Game Keeper in the Glendale Galleria, but they didn't have gaming tables, so the cachet wasn't quite the same.
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Drohem

#33
April 06, 2009, 11:45:51 AM
Quote from: The Shaman;294342The stores of my youth were The War Club in LCF and The Last Grenadier in Burbank - the latter's still around, I'm told.

I also frequented The Game Keeper in the Glendale Galleria, but they didn't have gaming tables, so the cachet wasn't quite the same.

Right on!  I used to go to the Game Keeper in the Glendale Galleria all the time myself.  I grew up in Glendale.  The Last Grenadier is still in Burbank.  It's on Hollywood Way now, close to Magnolia Blvd.  It's a small shop and easy to pass up on the street now.  It's nothing like it used to be in heyday when it was in the Golden Mall, and before they re-opened San Fernando Blvd. to car traffic again.

The Shaman

#34
April 06, 2009, 02:04:34 PM
Quote from: Drohem;294395Right on!  I used to go to the Game Keeper in the Glendale Galleria all the time myself.  I grew up in Glendale.
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mrk

#35
April 09, 2009, 04:42:11 PM
I think I went to Game Keeper once. Kinda small as I remember and didn't have much. there was another Store in  East Glendale that I thought was better. Kinda funky like  the Last Grenadier. Anyone remember that place?
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Drohem

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April 09, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Quote from: mrk;295285I think I went to Game Keeper once. Kinda small as I remember and didn't have much. there was another Store in  East Glendale that I thought was better. Kinda funky like  the Last Grenadier. Anyone remember that place?

Wow, this is freaky that I'd find so many people on a random forum that know the same area. :)

Yeah, the RPG section at the Game Keeper was small.  Another store in east Glendale you say?  Hmmm... it doesn't spark my memory right away.  Do you remember anything about the location, where in east Glendale it was located?  Any big landmarks or stores nearby that might get some old memory cylinders firing?

Aos

#37
April 09, 2009, 05:05:16 PM
We went to one in Philidephai New York when I was in my early teens. I have no recollection of the name- if it even had a name.  The town was tiny and given the average age of the fanbase at the time, and the fact that we were all acttered across the extremely rural landscape, the store was nearly inaccessible for most of us. My friends and I might make the bike ride out twice a summer. I can remember getting a ride from a friend's dad one time, and it seemed like magic (the bike ride was an all day affair, which required a packed lunch, because there was literally nothing between the Watertown and Philidelphia. It went out of business after a few years; I was told it was due to shoplifting- but I always thought shoplifting required, you know, shoppers.  
Later, we had a one in my town, but it was run by guys that should never, ever have gone into business (mix white trash/rednecks and extreme gamers geeks for a sorry, depressing debacle). It lasted about two years, changed hands (one of my old DMs bought it I think) and eventually vanished a couple more years down the line.
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