The Shoppe

Cool place, to find incense, oils, candles and unique pieces of clothing. I like their stone, and jewelry collections. Would be nice to see more Pagan amulets, pendants. Went looking for a Pentagram, they didn’t have any. Did find a pretty dress, scarf. You can easily spend a long time there, if you’re into this kind of stuff.

Stopped in for incense and ended up finding a super purse for my old lady. Twenty six bucks for a Hot Topic looking pink punk purse. It was a belated birthday gift since the actual day of her birthday I went to Giant Pigeon at midnight to buy flowers and a trashy novel. Anyhow, same old Shoppe. Nothing ever changes. Which I like. I don’t really get how a space this big that never moves any other merchandise stays open for this many years. Maybe they get by selling one used record a year. At the prices they want for some pretty common titles, it could happen. But all head shops ask for an arm and a bong for records (Daystar, etc). I guess if you’re high as shit and see that CSNY lp you heard in Athens for the first time, you might be compelled to blow thirty bucks on something you could download for free. But yeah, what was I saying? A quiet, sparkly menagerie of baubles and fragrances sure to make any crappy WNCX playlist sound like a psychedelic symphony.

Every time I’m in Berea I make an effort to go to The Shoppe. It has literally everything a head shop should. The most charming thing about The Shoppe has to be the layout. Organized chaos, but oddly enough it works. My mom loves to tell me stories of how she used to go there when she was in high school many years ago. If nothing else, you can easily kill an hour in The Shoppe. Here’s to another 40 years!