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Our Photobooth is here!

The long anticipated day is finally here! Our Photobooth is here, and it was quite a project. Photobooth

It took a few hours for the booth techs to get the Photobooth all positioned and working. Check out its innards:

Innards!

More innards!

Also, Steven Svymbersky, the original owner of Quimby’s is here to visit! We put him to work:

Steven dusting!

We also like that Dan Kelly, one of Quimby’s longtime customers stopped by to coordinate plaid shirts:

Steven and Dan

New Stuff 4/28/07

Holy Cow the shop is blowin up today, our founder Steven is up in the spot, dudes are setting up the new photo booth and the weather is so nice, people are just walking in all warm and smiley!!!!!
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New Stuff 4/21/07

New Stuff to Hit Our Shelves on the Week ending 4/21/07

This post is for the RSS challenged, but if you know about RSS Brian has some new Kung-Fu so you can keep up with items on our website as they are posted. Good for those of you out of Chicago that might see something on these weekly lists and wonder when it will be available on-line.
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Momma, what’s an RSS feed?

Calling all geeks, nerds and “power users”, we’ve added an RSS feed of the last two weeks’ ten days worth of new stuff on quimbys.com. Check it out at https://www.quimbys.com/quimbys.xml

Stamp out the rate hikes. A letter from Bob McChesney.

Stamp Out the Rate Hike: Stop the Post Office

Thanks to Matt from Diamonds for forwarding this item.

Dear friend, relative, or acquaintance of Bob McChesney,

The news media are covering the tragic murders in Virginia this
morning, and as they do an extraordinarily significant story is
slipping through the cracks.

On very rare occasions I send a message to everyone in my email
address book on an issue that I find of staggering importance and
urgency. (My address book includes pretty much everyone who emails me
in one form or another, and I apologize if you get this message more
than once.) This is one of those times.

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