Mikey, Seth and I were talking about old times at Academy and figured we'd start this blog so everyone can share their stories in a forum better than just emails. We figured it would be good to reminis since they officially gutted the Greenwich Store and the last official Academy Video is gone.
Enjoy, share, follow the blog and invite others!
RJ
I guess an initial cast of characters is in order. Off the top of my head some of the favorites from Greenwich:
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Link
Jimmy Chiang
Jack E. Robinson
Francoise
Sutton
Leckie
The Chimblo's
I still see Francois from time to time on the avenue looking ever so shady
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ReplyDeleteJust reading the name "Jimmy Chiang" made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteRJ, it's 'reminisce'. :)
Woah forgot one
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I think everyone had a story about that guy.
Mel, you keep your teacher attitude out of this!
Hey cuz, you like Nicholas Cage cuz?
ReplyDeleteOk, so this is not a Greenwich AV story, but it IS an Al story! In West Main on a sunny Sunday morning, Al and I were doing our typical open. Al realizes it's late and we will not have time to get coffee if he doesn't leave immediately--so I send him on his way while I was filing videos. I go to the bathroom and am ready for the store to open. As I am leaving the back room, I nonchalantly start walking in between the Action/Adventure and Mystery/Suspense aisles when I hear "FREEZE!" I look up at three guns pointed to my head as Stamford's Finest are staring me down. Rather than staying still, I keep walking and say "What's going on?" To make a long story short, Al ran out of the store so fast that a customer retuning movies in the night drop thought he was robbing the place. Absent-minded Al didn't lock the door, therefore allowing the cops to waltz in while I was peeing. Eight cruisers were outside awaiting to nab the hooligans robbing the place, even though it was just ME. Thanks AL BAKER for all the fine memories at Academy Video. I refuse to talk about the time he tried to kiss me on the lips.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA classic Kelli. I remember a story John told me about Al when he set the alarm in the store and then didnt get out in time so it set off the alarm and when the cops came Al couldnt remember the password to shut the alarm off. and he kept saying to them "i know the password, but i dont know the password!!"
ReplyDeleteRJ do you remeber the guy who came in w/ hos wife and got pissed off that there was a balance so he refused to pay and started yelling and asked for the manager then as soon as you sait i was the manager almost before i could turn around he was paying then he started apolagizing to you and you told him he should be apoligizing to his wife
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