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This is an opportunity for me, a novice, to ask:
exactly how DO shell shops get their shells?
I always wondered.
Elizabeth
At 11:44 AM 6/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Conch-L'ers,
>
>As some of you know by now, The La Jolla Cave & Shell Shop is going out
>of business. To be more precise...being forced out of business. Last week
>an article was published about the closure in the La Jolla Light, a local
>paper. What follows is an exert from that article. I thought some of you
>might find the comments of the land owner James William Allen (who is a
>golf manufacturer and ultimately responsible for the closure)interesting
>...especially the second paragraph.
>
>>From the article by Dave Schwab, Light Business Editor, Thursday, June
>11, 1998
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> "As much as tourists are good for our economy — they've taken
>over our city," he said. "I've quizzed a lot of people and they're
>reaction is always the same: They've been to the shell shop, but it was
>15 years ago, and they'll be upset it's going ... but. It's like that
>Polaroid camera that's been in your closet that you haven't used in 30
>years."
> "There also are some drawbacks to sea shell retail," added Allen,
>pointing out he's been told by institutions like Scripps Oceanographic
>that reefs are being destroyed around the world by shell "miners"
>prospecting to fill the needs of retail outlets like La Jolla Cave &
>Shell Shop.
>
>Comments from all you 'miners' out there are welcome.
>
>Kim Hutsell
>Field Research, Marine Malacology
>San Diego
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