The Attic was founded in 1976 by Chris Morrison on Tiburon’s
Ark Row. I think it started as a coin and stamp shop, but by the time I first saw
it Chris was bullying and selling all kinds of collectibles. Baseball cards,
rocks, comic books… pretty much anything collectable. He had a whole bunch of precious artifacts that he just kept in the store for show. You might have to ask about three or four things before finding something he'd agree to sell you.
There were several video games at the front of the store,
and local kids would gather after school to play them and just hang out in the
shop. The thing is, none of the games were ever the latest ones – all were at
least 10 years old. I asked Chris about his vintage games, and he said that the
latest games bring older teenagers, and older teenager brought cursing and
smoking. So he didn’t want that kind of thing around the younger kids in the
store.
This picture is probably from around 1990.
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