“I grew up in the Bay Area, going to the store in Berkeley.
“For me, personally, it’s a big deal,” Minsloff said. On Wednesday, her picks from the bargain bins include records by Roxy Music and Parliament-Funkadelic. The kid, he noted, already is a collector of vinyl albums. He carried a basket through the store to hold the purchases he and his almost-4-year-old daughter Kira selected. “It seems like they put a whole lot of work into it.”
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Graphic designer Ivan Minsloff did the opening day poster that shoppers will get free with a purchase. “He’s been a friend of the store since the San Francisco days,” Lane says. Lane said the biggest change for Amoeba in its move - a reduction in office and warehouse space - won’t be felt by customers as much as employees.Ī new stage for live performances still needs the lights and sound system installed - not that live performances are happening quite yet - but a new mural by artist Shepard Fairey already serves as its backdrop. “But after a second, the shock of how weird it looks wore off.” “It felt like such a loss for us nerds.”Īnd yes, walking into the new Amoeba on Wednesday was initially a little bit weird, he said. “It was incredibly difficult to see the shop close,” Dickey said.
He scored an invite as an employee of Family Industries, which does all the Amoeba merch - T-shirts, hoodies, a special opening day print for shoppers.
There are coffee mugs for everyone from Prince and Frida Kahlo, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Golden Girls.Ī wall stocked with air fresheners allows you to scent your car with Biggie and Bowie and Snoop Dogg - though the fact that the latter is pine-scented seems off-target as to Snoop’s trademark aroma.Ĭraig Dickey had pulled a vinyl copy of the music from the second season of “Big Little Lies” from the bins in the soundtrack section. Votive candles of individual members of the massively popular K-pop boy band BTS on one display.
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