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Old 08-11-2018, 08:29 PM
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Default OT: What happened to Smokey's?

if memory serves, the "main branch" of these franchised card and memorabilia shops was a sprawling owlet on the Las Vegas strip in the late 1980s. There were also Smokey's in LA, Seattle, Chicago and several other cities, and they used to run full-page ads in every issue of SCD. After a couple of years they all gone. What happened?
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Old 08-11-2018, 08:38 PM
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Bankrupt I believe. The big boom became a bust.
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Old 08-11-2018, 09:33 PM
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Default you are correct, however...

I fear the owlet never matured to become an owl...
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If we are thinking of the same Smokey’s, they got busted for selling fake autographs in Operation Bullpen?

The book with the same name by Kevin Nelson covers it and is a highly entertaining read.


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I believe operation bullpen is what ended them, there is a really good book about it, and Smokey’s are mentioned.
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