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I am sorry to see that they closed. I visited several times while I was living in Connecticut and it was a nice store with a pretty broad range of products.

Would also like to mention "Altex" of old in San Antonio TX. They have morphed into a computer store but used to be a really amazing electronic component store. It made me want to buy stuff just because it existed.

Feel like specialty stores are mostly dried up now. My father knew all the tool shops in San Antonio and I enjoyed just seeing the diversity of stuff to do anything (welding, electronics, fasteners, pneumatic tools, plywood, Camera Shops, etc.) I suppose there are a lot of these sorts of places but most of what I see is pretty generic consumer stuff (Home Depot, Wallmart, Amazon).