Yes people, those are stacks of old magazines from the '50's, '60's, '70's, '80's, and upwards on those tables. And there's three more just like them on the other side of the room. And all along the walls of that big room are filled shelves filled with all manner of cheesy paperbacks, old Time Life series books, kid's books, and more. But let's get back to the magazines for a moment. There's old copies of Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Theatre Craft, True, Argosy, Life, Look, People, Sphere, Holiday, Modern Farmer, and many many many more. I bought a National Geographic from 1957 and a 1956 Argosy, which was an old men's general interest magazine, and I got them both for a buck each. It's a good thing I live in Johnson City or else I'd be in that store every day buying old magazines. I've been working my scanner hard as it is, I can only imagine what I'd do to it if I was in that joint all the time. I've got to be strong and limit my self to only one or two trips to the promised land a month.
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Better check your pulse - perhaps you died and went to Dr. Monkey heaven. But if you had, wouldn't Selma Hayek be working there?
No, Salma's over at my place, making me tea and dusting my bookshelves.
Yay! You have hit the mother lode! I can't wait to see the results.
Control yourself, monkey boy! You know that stuff is like crack for you.
SWEET JAYSUS! That scanner's gonna be smokin' for the foreseeable future!
Ohmygod, I would love to browse that store...Do they have a resident cat?
Wow!
And, since it's in Kingsport, TN, it's not overrun with hipsters and antique dealers from the big city grabbing up all the good stuff. Have fun!
Oh my god, I'd be in heaven. I love, love, love musty old magazines.
The ads! The pictures!
I've already got a hefty stack, but I'd be broke if I lived by the Haggle Shop.
I am so freaking jealous.
I'd love to find a place like that around here.
Of course, I remember when I was a kid and garage sales and flea markets were filled with great old magazines for next to nothing.
Before Ebay and collectors ruined it all.
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