Re: Does anyone remember any store that closed?
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Date: March 13, 2017 09:48PM
Can't mention any one in particular, because I don't remember, but Pet Stores seemed to be everywhere, and sold just about everything, snakes, tarantulas, boa constrictors (I remember a friend buying one for $20 in 1979).
As a matter of fact, does anyone remember reading about one of the Kennedy kids in the 60's was into falconry, amongst many other "hobbies" teenagers get into, LOL?
Anyhow, did the story go that he purchased his red-tail hawk from a pet store in Falls Church?! Back in the day, many birds of prey were considered "vermin", or something like that, in any event, did not receive the protections they do now.
Imagine that-buying a frickin hawk from a pet store.
The one at Ravensworth Pet Store had frickin dogs that you could buy, next to the Caimans...which were these little alligator type things.