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Edited on Fri May-29-09 02:02 PM by SoCalDem
When we moved here 31 years ago, there were at least 6 Stationery/Office Supply stores. All of them were local businesses that had been here for DECADES. They delivered to the local businesses, and had a nice supply of "gift-y" items for the walk in customers too.
My husband's an architect, and uses ONLY Pentel .09 RED lead for one of his drawing pencils... yes SOME oldtimers still do not use CAD, and prefer to take pencil-pen to paper.
OfficeMax/ CompUSA/ OfficeDepot/ CircuitCity/ Staples/ Target/ Walmart/ BestBuy came to town a while back, EVERY ONE of the local stationers were put out of business , and now every one of them that "offered" the more mundane of supplies, has decided that "no one USES" that particular size/color of lead, so they all discontinued it from even their catalogues.
I found it online from a place in Chicago, and ordered 12 packages (at his age, probably a lifetime supply :P: )..
I can no longer even FIND anyone to work on my old Monroe Calculator..and NO I do NOT want a "new" one.. I had to go online and hunt for a refurbished one, and was happy to pay $40 for a 20 year old calculator becasuse I do not want ANOTHER junky plastic one that cannot "keep up" with this old bookkeepers "fast fingers".. I have had at least three that just have a permanent "ERROR" in the display window..
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