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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Anybody else miss the smell of the original REI store in Seattle? The floor creaked as you walked up its slowly sloping angle. Id love to have that store back again.
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DestinationUp Gearluster
Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 343 | TRs | Pics Location: 110 miles from the Teanaway |
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6389 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | the smell of the original REI store in Seattle? |
Ahhh...nothing like the smell of creosote in the morning! Older store but not original. (see this recent thread)
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trestle Member
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | Anybody else miss the smell of the original REI store in Seattle? The floor creaked as you walked up its slowly sloping angle. Id love to have that store back again. |
Sure do, I noted it in the other thread. The blue-collar nature it invoked seemed apropos for the utilitarian nature of the co-op in those days. Talk about a memory.
I remember the sloping, creaky walkway housing the wonderful gallery that transported you around the region and world.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
We used to talk about the " climbers" parking lot where you had to go up a wooden stairway to the store, and the hikers parking lot around the corner. Then across the street was Penberthys MSR.
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Schroder Member
Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 6696 | TRs | Pics Location: on the beach |
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Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:33 am
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Malachai Constant wrote: | you had to go up a wooden stairway to the store |
half the time with blackberries growing over it
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Dalekz Member
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Tue Dec 23, 2014 12:33 pm
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Part of the store is now a Value Village, So you can visit and still smell the Creosote floors and the creaky inside stairways if so desired.
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camut Member
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Ha!! I had forgotten about that old "climber's parking lot". Getting in and out of there was an adventure in itself.
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touron Member
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trestle wrote: | Backpacker Joe wrote: | Anybody else miss the smell of the original REI store in Seattle? The floor creaked as you walked up its slowly sloping angle. Id love to have that store back again. |
Sure do, I noted it in the other thread. The blue-collar nature it invoked seemed apropos for the utilitarian nature of the co-op in those days. Talk about a memory.
I remember the sloping, creaky walkway housing the wonderful gallery that transported you around the region and world. |
Meandering through the store was its own adventure. It seems like the stairs going to the upper floor were pretty creaky.
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LizzyRN Member
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Wow! Thanks for sharing that. 1964 was a great year; I was born! Pretty neat to see this.
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Olympic Hiker Member
Joined: 19 Oct 2009 Posts: 386 | TRs | Pics
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reststep wrote: | I thought I had a low REI membership number but when they opened the store last year in Silverdale the Central Kitsap Reporter said member number 25 lives in the area. |
I wonder if #25 is Dee Molenaar. I believe he is still alive and if he is, he would be in his 90's; making it possible to have #25. I think he lives in the Port Orchard area.
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