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Started by gnowell, 04/03/2009 11:20AM
Posted 04/03/2009 11:20AM | Edited 04/03/2009 11:23AM Opening Post
Herb:

A recently posted picture from ATWB showed a small part of an attractive show room floor and a view. I was wondering if you could get someone with a camera to put up a dozen pics of ATWB from the outside looking in, inside looking out, the various displays, and the staff.

I've spent thousands of $$$ on astronomy but only been inside two or three stores: Orion in SF just as it closed, and Scopecity, also in SF; and Maison de l'Astronomie in Montreal.

Anyhow it would be nice if a photo essay something like "meet the folks at ATWB" (and some shots of ATWB's biz layout as well) were available to help make the place seem more real. These days I imagine astronomy stores in dank industrial areas where the rent is cheap and everything stays in a box till shipped. I'm also very fond of shots of lots of telescopes set up together. I'll bet you also have displays of eyepieces and binoculars and what not....looks like you have an attractive setting for the store, it would be nice to visualize that too.

You might already have something like this somewhere, but I don't know where it is.

thanks
Greg N

"Scope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no scope." --Freewheelin' Franklin
Posted 04/03/2009 11:49AM | Edited 04/03/2009 11:51AM #1
Well I checked out 9973 Padilla Heights road, Anacortes, Wa on google maps with the satellite pics and it looks like ATWB is in nice open country with a great bay/estuary thing going on. Looks lovely. From outer space the store looks like it is in nice open territory with comfortable parking. But I couldn't get a ground level pic....

I spent some time in this area when I was a kid. A summer in the improbably named Sedro-Woolley and several other summers on Camano island. Beautiful part of the world.

regards
Greg N

"Scope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no scope." --Freewheelin' Franklin