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captain_slinky) wrote2009-10-16 03:25 pm
captain_slinky) wrote2009-10-16 03:25 pm
Birthday Express & Comic Book Coincidences
VERY recently, Corner Comics (formerly of Kenmore) moved to a new location just off of 124th St in Kirkland, kind of near the Totem Lake Mall.
Hey, that's cool.. I know that area! I used to work in that area! It's near the old Birthday Express offices!
Since I was already over there I figured I'd drive by the old BDXP building and see how it looked.
And right there, in the office building where the Business Offices of Birthday Express had been? BEL-KIRK COMIC, STAMP & COIN has relocated there! To me, that is just the weirdest location EVER. A dilapidated early 80's office building in an industrial park, very low visibility... it's just WEIRD.
BTW, locals who remember BEL-KIRK COMIC, STAMP & COIN will fondly remember that the store, regardless of location (3 different ones I've known of over the years) always had the look and feel of your average episode of A&E's "Hoarders" TV show with half-open boxes everywhere and stacks of random comic-related stuff from floor to ceiling. No real organization or reason to the madness, right? Well I can proudly say that, having looked in the window and checked things out, that tradition is alive and well in the bowels of that industrial park office storefront :)
It's weird to me that two different East-Side comic book stores that had long histories of being the only place to get comics in their prospective communities both moved to within 4 blocks of each other, within the span of just a few weeks. I wonder if they're even aware?
Hey, that's cool.. I know that area! I used to work in that area! It's near the old Birthday Express offices!
Since I was already over there I figured I'd drive by the old BDXP building and see how it looked.
And right there, in the office building where the Business Offices of Birthday Express had been? BEL-KIRK COMIC, STAMP & COIN has relocated there! To me, that is just the weirdest location EVER. A dilapidated early 80's office building in an industrial park, very low visibility... it's just WEIRD.
BTW, locals who remember BEL-KIRK COMIC, STAMP & COIN will fondly remember that the store, regardless of location (3 different ones I've known of over the years) always had the look and feel of your average episode of A&E's "Hoarders" TV show with half-open boxes everywhere and stacks of random comic-related stuff from floor to ceiling. No real organization or reason to the madness, right? Well I can proudly say that, having looked in the window and checked things out, that tradition is alive and well in the bowels of that industrial park office storefront :)
It's weird to me that two different East-Side comic book stores that had long histories of being the only place to get comics in their prospective communities both moved to within 4 blocks of each other, within the span of just a few weeks. I wonder if they're even aware?
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I know what you mean about it being an odd location....last time I drove by the old BDXP it was a carpet warehouse.
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