lordgalvar wrote:Yup, and I remember them getting bought by the discovery channel. I don't know if we got one of the half-assed ones like Bakersfield always did with retail (which was cool as a kid getting to grow up in local business land...but Bakersfield is different now).
My dad and I always used to go in there to flip over all the rain sticks at once and laugh at those gel filled plastic bags that pop out of your hand with sea-themed-sequins inside*. But The Nature Company also provided a lot of America with didgeridoos....so that is a plus. I seem to remember that after discovery bought it, it slowly turned into a playskool brookstone.
* You know, if you put them on eBay for $20 more listed as something else, it is called adult business. Back then, I was innocent of all that and my dad was too. They just always had those and it seemed so freaking pointless to us haha.
We need other people's stories.!
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Oh yeah, I remember that now. They just seemed to disappear.
I actually worked at one as seasonal help after college. The only things I really remember was hiding the corner near the gems during the christmas rush, trying to avoid the customers, and sweating under the hot display lights. Oh, and the assistant manager claimed that he used to date Stevie Nicks. He said he had pictures, but strangely nobody ever saw them.
Got any stories of socal?
