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I saw this photo to-day (i hope charltonlido won't mind me linking to it!)

http://flickr.com/photos/charltonlido/303541774/

Is this real?

― ned trifle XIV (ned trifle XIV), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I've found another page...it was real!
http://flickr.com/photos/tspauld/43858952/

Amazing.

― ned trifle XIV (ned trifle XIV), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And now I've found this page about the architects.
http://siteenvirodesign.com/proj.best.php

― ned trifle XIV (ned trifle XIV), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Sad that it, and apparently the others, dont exits anymore

here is its replacement today

http://flickr.com/photos/djcn0te/305925435/

― Subtractive Synthesis (Subtractive Synthesis), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdLDnbLyhk

looking back at Best Products

― Subtractive Synthesis (Subtractive Synthesis), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved Best when I was a kid.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Best, Consumer's Distributed and Service Merchandise were all great fun as kids.

― svend (svend), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My favorite of the SITE projects was the parking lot asphalt that was poured over the cars... aslo gone, alas.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.rarebookstore.net/cgi-bin/schuyler/2210.html

― 526 (526), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

where/when was that brian?

― 526 (526), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That store was real. My brothers and I used to crawl all over it when I was a kid. It slid back into place when the store was closed, I think. Why the hell would anyone tear that down?

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember that store well! and yeah I played on that thing also when I was a kid.

My fondest memory of Best: going there to get a Jawa action figure on the day of release.

― akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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