Old time sporting goods.

[.45colt]

Yesterday the Wife and I took a daytrip up to Jamestown NY. She wanted to see the Lucille Ball museum that is there as it was Lucy's home town.If You grew up with "Lucy" it's well worth the visit. on the way back to the highway on main street we passed an older looking building. the Wife said as We went by "it said they sell guns and tackle". I turned around at the first chance and back we went.
Walking through the big front door I was amazed to see fish and animal mounts everywhere and all manner of fishing and hunting tackle.Lacrosse boots, Filson clothing,Orvis tackle and about everything else I could think of. it is a small place,but loaded with everything outdoors.
they only had two Levers on the rack,but lot's of other rifles and Shotguns. One of the Men working there asked if I needed help and then politely left Me alone. It really took Me back in time. Anyone travelling on 86 past Jamestown M&M Sportsden is just about a mile west on Mainstreet...http://www.mandmsportsden.com/cart/about.php

[kimwcook]

Love finding those old stores. Don't see them around anymore, big guys have generally shut them down. Lucille Ball was a funny and talented lady. Ricky, I'm home.

[jdad]

We lived back in the mid 1960's just a couple of miles outside of Binghampton, NY. I can still remember going into the original Dick's Sporting Goods just wishing I had the money to spend, on that glorious fishing tackle that filled the floor. There was also a little hardware store, in downtown Endicott, that was so full of fishing and hunting products that they had to hang stuff from the ceiling.

[AJMD429]

Guys, I think maybe TERRY owns the place - this is right off their website:

M & M SPORTS DEN IS LOCATED AT 808 NORTH MAIN STREET IN JAMESTOWN NEW YORK WHICH IS IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. WE ARE ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO NEW YORK. WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS SINCE 1957 AND ARE WELL KNOWN THROUGH OUT THE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. WE SPECIALIZE IN HUNTING AND FISHING PRODUCTS AND SERVICE EVERYTHING WE SELL. WE HAVE ON SIGHT GUN SMITHING AND REPAIR COLEMAN LANTERNS AND STOVES, FIREARMS, FISHING RODS AND FISHING REELS. WE ARE A WARRANTY CENTER FOR MANY PRODUCTS THAT WE SELL. WE ARE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO CHAUTAUQUA LAKE WHICH IS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS MUSKELLUNGE POPULATION. WALLEYE FISHING ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE IS ALSO VERY POPULAR DURING ICE OFF AND OF COURSE THROUGH THE ICE. CRAPPIE, BASS, BULLHEAD AND PAN FISH ARE ALSO PLENTIFUL WHICH MAKES CHAUTAUQUA LAKE SUCH A FUN FISHERY. LAKE ERIE IS ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES NORTH OF JAMESTOWN AND THE FISHING HAS BEEN EXCELLENT FOR WALLEYE, SALMON AND BASS.

Kinda hard to read that way, for me at least...

[RIHMFIRE]

45colt...........You got sum splan'n to do.... ....."my best cuban accent"
How did you get your wife to go into a gun store!

I love the old fashion type gun stores
We have one in mount dora thats been around for a hundred years or so...
squeeky wood floors and all

[Nazgul]

I grew up in Jamestown, NY. Been in M&M lot of times. The owner, at least then, was rather gruff but they did have lots of items.


The lucy museum is a hoot. They have a set where you can do the "Vetavitavegamen" routine and watch yourself on a B&W tv.

Don

[LeverBob]

I know what you're sayin' pard...an old hardware store whose owner was a gunsmith & had everything imaginable in stock. Including good guns of every name...ammo, reloading gear, clothes, fishing gear & an attitude like an old boar hog. He could build or machine anything, like Dunlop, Biesen, Neidner, Hoffman, etc.

Old heads on the wall & pictures of the greats like Schoyen, Axel Petersen, Linden, Pope, Crossman, Whelan, Ben Eastman, Ackley, Elwood Epps or Paul Haberly...that he had shot against, hunted alongside or had hot arguements with.

An old potbelly stove stoked up to redhot & hot coffee ready with the cups. Yarns, tales & outright lies & bib overalls....good times had by all.

Old fashioned gun/hardware stores...I miss them terribly.

LB

[.45colt]

Rimfire, We have kind of a truce when it comes to this, She put's up with My intrests while I look. just as I have to when She spots a craft store or a Christmas Store. .

[Win71]

Wow, thanks for the memories flashback to the 1960's of Alpena Sporting Goods here in N.E. Michigan. I was 14 and did the janitorial work at my Dad's finance company office and the local Western Union office on weekends. The money I made was spent at the above sporting goods store, I bought my first levergun a Savage model 99E, 308 Winchester, with a Savage 4 power scope, payments of $5.00 a week. They sold red and green box Remington and yellow box Winchester ammunition by the cartridge, Soo Wool red plaid hunting suits made in Michigan, Red Wing/Irish Setter Boots, Filson Clothing and fishing tackle and lures only seen today in an antique shop or on Ebay . You could visit on any day and the coffee was always on the hot plate and there was always a group of guys in there shooting/catching the big one. Sure beat the heck out of Walmart, we would all be better off if we could go back to those days.