[Rockhounds] MSP to Austin Rock Shops

[Kitty]

The only rock shop in Hilo closed some years ago (I know Kreigh 
Tomaszewski bought a specimen there when he visited us in 2003, and I 
don't remember whether it was still open when he and Axel Emmermann 
visited us in 2013).  I bought a lot of specimens when the owner had a 
closing sale. The owner told me that her sales were so down that she 
could not pay the rent for her shop, much less make a profit.

There are a couple of rock shops in Kailua Kona, but most of them 
feature "healing gems" and stuff meant for tourists, not rockhounds, and 
I don't know how they're doing financially.

There is a rock shop on the north shore of the Big Island in the little 
town of Hawi called /Star Light Hawaii Crystals & Treasures/.  We were 
there a few yours ago and there was a large sheet of plywood nailed 
across it's front. It seems a car-driver pulling out from a parking lot 
across the street hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, and plowed 
right through the front of the rock shop.  There was a hand-painted sign 
on the plywood saying:

"We will re-open soon.
This is NOT a drive-in rock shop!"

Aloha, Kitty


On 2/27/2019 6:19 AM, gary brown wrote:
> We're heading down to Austin, [snip] any suggestions for rock shops 
> along the way?[snip] We've been seeing fewer and fewer places on our 
> jaunts. Gary
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