I really miss Fredrick & Nelsons in DT Seattle. I remember my Dad taking me there when I was a young Kid. They use to have a Gunsmith and a high end Fishing/Hunting section. My Dad bought a state of the art Orvis spinning reel along with a light weight Fenwick rod. I ended up losing that combo near Tacoma head works (set it next to a tree and took off) came back about an hour later and it was gone. Anyone remember Ben Paris? Me and my buddies would take a bus down there to play pinball... What stores do you miss?....doesn't have to be an outdoor store.

The one in Tacoma with the Ape in the cage. My kids would have liked that.

The B&I.....I loved that place. I think his name was Ivan. That was one pissed off silverback.

Warshals Sporting Goods in downtown Seattle. So nice to have that three blocks from my office.

Chubby & Tubby
I just liked how cluttered it was and how much stuff they had packed in their store.
$5.00 Christmas trees were a great deal.

The Liquidators in Bellevue. It was up behind the Goose tavern, and they had killer deals on everything...miss that place.

Buffalo Bill's in Issaquah, Salvino Sports in Issaquah, and Dan's Firearms and Archery in Renton are a few that i miss...

Bought my first rifle from Warshall's on my 18th BD. Still have it..

GI Joe's...a Portland area sporting goods store that started as a military surplus store.
Larry's...Oregon City based outdoor store

Used to hang out at the Goose Pub when we were doing the Coca-Cola plant addition in about 2005.
About the only non-stuffy place that we could find in Bellevue.

I remember that store...wasn't it next to Portland Meadows?

Stopped to do some shopping at Staples in Sequim today...........closed down and gone.

O'B's in the renton highlands, Birdies Tackle in Kent, and anyone remember Victory sporting goods in Cle Elum?

The Yard Birds in Chehalis and it's alter ego the Sea Mart in Olympia.

Arctic Circle.

Totem Stores in the Portland area, especially good for outdoor Boots, socks, shirts, tec.

Ernst, particularly Bellevue Way and Main.
AA Auto parts store on Main St.
Bellevue Barber Shop, oh wait, they are still there, I just don't go in anymore

The Morning Hatch in Tacoma. Favorite fly shop without exception.

Artic circle ROCKED! there's still one in Yakima.

Jerry's Surplus in Everett.

I hate sports authority so much! Joe's was actually a pretty good tackle supplier.
Jerry's in Everett was a good store too.

Martha Lake Tavern...now it's a gawd-dam community park.

What a waste...

Exactly.

Acey Greasy for breakfast on football game day in Corvallis, we called it suds at sunrise.

Silver Beach Pub. Its now a retention pond for the road widening project around Silver lake.

I used to have to go with my mom on Saturdays to downtown to Pike Place market on the bus. I usually got to pick the place for lunch, Ben Paris, he had a 110 lb. salmon mounted somewhere in there, there was a Manning's restaurant and Woolworths. Later on used to go to the REI up on East Pine, awesome place spent lots of money there. Schoffs sporting goods in Kent, Doc Freemans when they were on the north end of lake Union. They had stuff hidden all over the place. You could find almost any marine part old or current and someone could always find it for you. Warshells Sporting Good on 1st Ave. Fisheries Supply when they were on the waterfront.

I was living on my sailboat when they moved to Ballard, the grocery store shell stole their soul

Doc Freeman's is no more? Say it ain't so!

dont know salmo... the original store that was at the north end of lake union at the bottom of stone way was moved to Ballard years ago, I think it is still there.

Long gone.

Kind of a long read, but yeh,

Yep, the original REI. All that old former warehouse space married together made it one of a kind.
Still have/use that Phoebus 625 and REI Mountaineer down bag I bought there at a Spring Sale a long time ago.

The Fisherman on Northrup Way in Bellevue got a lot of my allowance money. Buffalo Bill's in Issaquah as well.

The Lemolo Meat Market

Sunset drive in theatre in factoria. Everyone should experience drive in movies in their high school years.

Larry's in Beaverton.Good luck,
SZ

Fishin Tom's Tackle Renton

There's a Good Time Charlies in Soldotna that's still open.

SKETCHY talent when I was last there....but good chit watching people blow cash!

Those chicks did have the same average number of teeth as the local residents of Bethel........and that's not a good thing.

the duffle bag in south tacoma.

B&I in tacoma, at least in the form it used to be. the last time i went in there(probably 10 years ago) it was like a sketchy flea market.

bargain bob's in downtown seattle, for the $1.99 spools of maxima pearlescent(anybody else remember that weird yellow-green stuff?)

warshall's(i can remember going there as a kid, dad never bought anything, too expensive, but a neat store).

the old outdoor emporium

fishing corner in seatac, that one went out with the plunking shacks along the green river.

gi joes

olympia yard birds(complete with rain drip buckets and pigeons flying around inside)

hell, even the lacey sportsman's warehouse. the few times they had anything useful in stock, the prices were better than cabelas.

The Lusty Lady downtown Seattle.
The Comet Tavern on Capitol Hill.
The Ruptured Duck downtown Poulsbo. Later Voodiez
Lemolo Market
Idle Hour Downtown Poulsbo
Toa Yuen Corvallis
At Work Forks
Rathskeller Moscow
Siletz Brewing

Phinney Ridge Cafe

G.I. Joes. I loved it when everything was 50% off.

Yeah they did. Hasn't been one here since i was 5 or so. There was in Newport last time I was there building a roof on an old folks home. That was a few years back. They only complaint I had, or a coworker, was the ants that got into the strawberry soda. He poured his own drink and the damn cup had about a hundred ants in there. We still ate there every lunch break after.

The forks fatty brothel

Fairbanks Outfitter in Yakima. But, mostly because I got to shoot the chit with Gary. Miss him.

+1 Yard Birds ---Chehalis, Olympia and Shelton ... in that order