The Real Ones Shopped at This Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Store in the ’90s

There are a few stores that just capture the essence of your hometown. There's a pretty high chance that these stores aren't around anymore but the mere mention of them can cause a whole flood of memories to come rushing back.

You remember the music they played over the speakers (probably ridiculously loud) that made the store feel like a party even on a Tuesday after school at 3:30 pm. You remember the smells of the store; whether it was pungent men's cologne, fake leather, or squeaky clean floors.

Kim Blake posted about Slacker's in the Portsmouth, NH Facebook group and it sounds like it was THE store in 1997.

Kim perfectly described the saga of persuading her dad to buy her a ridiculously priced Burton sweatshirt from Slackers for Christmas. In her dad's defense, the sweatshirt was $75 in 1997, I think that is too expensive for a sweatshirt by today's standards. In 1997, I'm sure that felt more like $200.

She won the argument and it was $75 well spent as it was her favorite sweatshirt for many years. And get this, it found it's way back to her! She recently found it in a bin at a second hand store. It is unclear if this was her original sweatshirt or just the same style but regardless Kim is TICKLED to have it back in her outfit rotation.

Her Husky seems to dig it too.

Kim received tons of great comments on this post with folks adding other Portsmouth stores that they were obsessed with back in the day; Wholly Macro, J.J Newberry, Rock Bottom Records, The Elvis Room and WaterMonkey and are top contenders.

Many commentors echoed Kim's sentiments that Slackers was just about as cool as it gets. Chris McCarthy said as an adult he finally had to rip apart his bedroom and remodel and this sticker was proudly on his door frame after all these years:

What nostalgic stores should be added to the list?