biggest retail juggling stores?
jugglercodemonk
popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
jugglercodemonkey
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dpawson
store in my life. As much as I'd like to, I'll confess I have trouble
imagining such a store getting enough business for it to make sense.
Guy G
>
> I'm pretty sure I've never seen a dedicated brick and mortar juggling
> store in my life. As much as I'd like to, I'll confess I have trouble
> imagining such a store getting enough business for it to make sense.
There's loads in the UK. By which I mean "A few that I know of, and some
that I think exist. Plus there's bound to be more that I don't know of".
Having said that, one opened up in my town a while back, and I don't think
it lasted a year.
Guy
Thornhill
In Portland Oregon there is the serious juggling store that I've been to.
Also Dube has a physical
storefront in NYC. I think most tend to be small because the majority of
their business is online...
wikipedo
>
> Just wondering,
> popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
> are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
> and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
>
> jugglercodemonkey
>
I know of 2 stores I have been here in Belgium.
one in Aarschot and one in Hasselt.
both are rather small but have a lot of stuff in stock.
Although they seem to prefer if you order online and come to pick up your
order
in the store once it has arrived.
So hopefully I can go give the people in Aarschot �XX somewhere next week
and
come home with some cool stuff.
Wikipedo
Chris Dunlop
>
> Just wondering,
> popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
> are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
> and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
>
> jugglercodemonkey
How big does the traders hall at an EJC tend to be these days? When I
used to
attend British Juggling Conventions, in the 90s, the traders hall was
often
huge, wonderful, and a fantastic place for a bargain or for some really
nice
props you maybe hadn't seen before. After a 10 year gap, I went to BJC
2009 in
Norwich, and it was very noticeable how much smaller the traders hall was.
I
understand that the switch to online sales must be a very major factor
there.
But I'm hoping to get to EJC Munich, next year and wondering if the
traders
hall will still be anything like as big/good as they used to be.
Chris
EricS
Hawk Kites" along the Outer Banks of North Carolina has much of the Duncan
Juggling selection and flower sticks. It's one of the larger "stores" but
their selection is hardly a big one. (I get the magic/juggling connection,
but never been sure of the kite/juggling one--outdoor activity?)
Dube's been mentioned, also Juggling Store (of Magic Geek and .com fame)
have a store in California.
Now defunct: Juggling Capitol, formerly with stores in Washington, DC, San
Francisco, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dave Cheetham
>
> Just wondering,
> popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
> are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
> and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
>
> jugglercodemonkey
>
There's Juggleart in Melbourne, Australia (http://juggleart.com/). I
haven't been to any other Juggling Shops internationally, but just about
every international juggler that comes to Australia has said that it's the
largest dedicated juggling store they've seen.
Cheers,
Dave
Emman
>
> Just wondering,
> popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
> are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
> and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
>
> jugglercodemonkey
>
Montreal has one, it's not very big but it has a decent selection.
http://www.boutiquesaltimbanque.com/
Their website is under reconstruction.
Emman
Little Paul
> I'm pretty sure I've never seen a dedicated brick and mortar juggling
> store in my life. As much as I'd like to, I'll confess I have trouble
> imagining such a store getting enough business for it to make sense.
On your side of the pond:
Dube have a storefront in Ney York:
http://www.dube.com/about/visit.php
Serious Juggling have a storefront in Portland:
http://www.seriousjuggling.com/serious-juggling-store-directions.htm
There are probably more, but those are the two most obvious.
On my side of the pond:
Oddballs have two stores, the largest being London. As far as I know
they're the largest bricks and mortar retail outlet in the UK.
http://www.oddballs.co.uk/juggling-shop-london-uk
Antigravity have a shop in York:
http://www.anti-gravity.co.uk/acatalog/Anti-Gravity_Shops_.html
Jesters have a shop in Ambleside:
http://www.ukjuggling.com/JestersOfAmbleside.html
Butterfingers do open their warehouse for retail visitors, but I'm not
really sure I'd count them as a bricks and mortar shopfront (as they're
mostly wholesale/mailorder)
http://www.butterfingers.co.uk/HowToReachUs.asp
There are a few others, but I got bored of looking for their websites.
-Paul
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http://paulseward.com
Little Paul
>
> When I used to attend British Juggling Conventions, in the 90s, the traders
> hall was often huge, wonderful, and a fantastic place for a bargain or for
> some really nice props you maybe hadn't seen before. After a 10 year gap,
> I went to BJC 2009 in Norwich, and it was very noticeable how much smaller
> the traders hall was. I understand that the switch to online sales must be
> a very major factor there.
I don't think online sales are as much of a factor in that decline as is the
general downsizing of the UK juggling scene over those 10 years.
In the early/mid 1990s, juggling (and circus in general) was a massively
mainstream craze and the scene was big enough to support many small shops
and manufacturers.
Time moved on, public interest wasn't sustained and by the end of the 1990s
many of those small shops and manufacturers had ceased trading because there
was nolonger a viable market for them. Some of them struggled on doing mail
order and trading at conventions, but they didn't last that long.
Things seem to be picking up a bit (if attendance figures for BJC are any
sort of a guide) but we're still about a third of where we were at the peak,
which is now getting on for 20 years ago.
-Paul
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http://paulseward.com
udropped1
>
> Just wondering,
> popular hobbies have dedicated retail stores, not just online shops. What
> are the largest bricks and morter IRL stores in the world for trying out
> and buying juggling stuff? What country has the biggest one?
>
> jugglercodemonkey
>
We have lots of walk-in biz at Higgins Bros in Dundas ON Canada - between
Niagara Falls and Toronto. It is, however, filthy, smells of stale beer
and the owners are complete dicks. On the bright side, we have 18 foot
ceilings, crazy loud music and lotsa gear. We also will give you a free
grocery bag (used) with every purchase. On Saturdays and Sundays and
sometimes Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; you may
have to come down to the pub to get us.
All visitors, please bring coffee
Don
Chris Dunlop
Thanks for that Paul,
I see (http://www.eja.net/en/ejc.html) that attendance of EJCs still looks
pretty good. Karlsruhe 2008 had 6665 people, which is huge). This suggests
that
popularity in Europe as a whole is relatively high. Will Munich 2011 be
even
bigger? Maybe it can have the biggest 'bricks and mortar' juggling shop,
if
only for a week? Or maybe there aren't enough traders for that currently?
Philippe
largest juggling store I have seen. They have a large and diverse stock of
material
and you can try many different props.
Oh yes I remember another one: Passe Passe in Paris is a very large one
too and worth a visit!
Philippe The Juggler
