Ever since moving into our new location in Wallingford last year, there have been some strange things happening. For obvious reasons, we’re used to strange things happening, but these defied rational explanation. At night, while closing up, we’ve heard an odd screeching sound that sounded like an animal’s cry. The alley behind the store is constantly full of [...]
September 29, 2009 – 11:23 am
We were on the Food Network last night! It was an episode of Unwrapped that focussed on, what else, Bacon! We got an interesting peek into their production process. They filmed at our store over a year before the segment was shown on TV. If you look at the picture of the two adorable customers [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
After 10-1/2 years, at 3:37 p.m., on May 31, 2009, the last Rubber Chicken at the Ballard Archie McPhee store was photographed, tagged and taken away. The floors were swept, the cornucopia of stuff hanging from the ceiling taken down and the giant devil head transported eastward in the back of a pickup truck beneath [...]
If you’re ever in Seattle, you have to stop by our store. Not just for the amazing products and great customer service, but also for the staff tattoos. Below you’ll find the first bunch of them. Pete is a serious werewolf afficianado and this tattoo of a wolfman hand coming out through his skin is visible [...]
An older gentleman smelling the display gorilla suit in our Seattle store.
November 25, 2008 – 1:13 pm
We put out our first board game this year, the Crazy Cat Lady Game. This shot shows our four fabulous models posing as crazy cat ladies. You may recognize them if you have ever been to our Seattle store.
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