Monthly Archives: June 2009

Goodbye Rocket, Hello 826

One of the bad things about moving our Seattle retail store to a smaller location is that we had to get rid of some of our larger items. Most of the items that wouldn’t fit moved to our business offices.  As an example, here’s a picture of the “Santa Claus in Dentist Chair with Spider” [...]

Beard of Bees Failure

Where would we be without our dreams? All progress is based on coming up with a seemingly impossible idea and then figuring out how to make it reality.
One of our dreams, as a company, was to mass-produce an affordable, well-made, novelty beard of bees. It sounds silly and simple, but the complexities involved eventually caused [...]

Bacon Tuxedo Boys

This beautiful picture from the back of our Bacon Tuxedo Joke Gift Box was too beautiful not to share on its own. Maybe there is hope for the future with children such as these.

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History of Archie McPhee

On the occasion of our new location in Wallingford, we thought we’d look back at some of our previous stores.

In 1983 we opened our first  location on upper Fremont Ave next to the Pink ‘N Pretty Beauty Salon in Fremont/Wallingford. This was a store with folding tables and open cardboard boxes full of awesome stuff [...]