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Hope they learned from all the mistakes made over the past 15 years and come back as GI Joe's, not joe's sports wear.
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----------------------------Hope they learned from all the mistakes made over the past 15 years and come back as GI Joe's, not joe's sports wear.
I just went in and talked to one of the people at the new location off NW 185th and West Union and was able to confirm that they are back and will be moving to a new location at some point in the near future. Plan is to go back to the way they were doing business about 15 years ago. I will keep people updated as I get more info.
I dont know how those places stay in business. They are incredibly overpriced on everything and there is like 10 of them around here. Joes had the same problem, everything was way overpriced.
My understanding is that the original owner sold the stores to a employee who was one I believe the president in about 1997 or 1998. One of the people trying to bring it back is one of the original owners son's along with former corporate and store employees. From what I am told the goal is to have the same type of store that was open 15 years ago.
Anyone remember the fence around the parking lot at the Delta Park store (N Portland) -- chain strung between up-ended dummy/practice bombs? I always thought that was neat.He likes to tell me about things like barrels of Garands in the store for dirt cheap back in the day when they had lots of military surplus in the store.
Anyone remember the fence around the parking lot at the Delta Park store (N Portland) -- chain strung between up-ended dummy/practice bombs? I always thought that was neat.
MrB
Anyone remember the fence around the parking lot at the Delta Park store (N Portland) -- chain strung between up-ended dummy/practice bombs? I always thought that was neat.MrB
Very cool. I was five-ish then. They were *bombs* to me.Those were actually Paravanes that were used by the Navy initially developed to destroy naval mines,Anyone remember the fence around the parking lot at the Delta Park store (N Portland) -- chain strung between up-ended dummy/practice bombs? I always thought that was neat.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/06/owner_of_gi_joes_name_blocks_p.html
Anyone else catch that? The owner of the name: "G.I. Joes" some Canadian group has blocked the comeback.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/06/owner_of_gi_joes_name_blocks_p.html
Anyone else catch that? The owner of the name: "G.I. Joes" some Canadian group has blocked the comeback.
Or in other words, the folks who started up the new store relied on a hail-mary legal theory to justify their use of a trademark owned by another company. Not smart business.
I would be kind of like someone taking a gun out of my gun safe that I hadn't shot in years and saying, "but you weren't using it" as a defense for stealing it.