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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

I was raised about 70 mi. from NYC, and from about age 14 to age 18 (when I
left for college in the West) anytime I visited the city I would stop in at
A&F. They always let me fondle the Purdy and Parker ,etc. shotguns and the
Payne and other great flyrods. I once asked them why they would let a
kid who obviously couldn't afford such toys do so. They told me that when I
could afford them I would remember how I was treated there, and would come
to them. Unfortunately some years later (shortly after the attempted
assasination of Reagen IIRC), they decided to stop carrying firearms, and
shortly thereafter went out of business. The yuppie clothing store that
uses the name now has no relationship to the original A&F other than
purchasing the rights to use the name.

Bob Weinberger La Grande,OR