Four Baggers and Foreclosures

Well, they went out of business! Yeah, that's the short answer.  But more importantly, what happened to each individual Clark's Submarine Sandwich store? Once there were 15 of them scattered around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, but they were all gone by 1991. Clark's still has a small but loyal following around town, and a reputation built off the bread, thinly sliced onions and most important, the sandwich oil that was it's signature. While the chain is long gone, I want to know just how gone is it?  For example, my hometown had a Clark's Submarine Sandwiches, and that building is still standing. Former Clark's Submarine Sandwich Location: 401 Northdale Blvd. Coon Rapids Back in October 2006, the building had long been sitting empty, but was still in good shape. Shortly after I took the picture of the abandoned Clarks/Cousins building, it was renovated and turned into a Dunn Bros. Coffee. But still standing! Clark...

Retail establishments near me were late in getting 2020 Topps Baseball on the shelves. By the point where it had been 4 days after it’s release, I still had not found any for sale at the area Targets. I would have checked a WalMarts, but no. I just don’t want to enter one of those places if I don’t have to. So with my arm firmly twisted, I guess I’d just have to go to the LCS for my first look at 2020 Topps. Oh darn… My plan was to buy the usual Hobby Jumbo box and do my pack by pack breakdown in a story here. But for whatever reason, be it a particular hot crop of rookies or this year’s “golden ticket” promotion, all Jumbo boxes were already sold out when I got there. I didn’t expect that… Since I wasn’t all that excited about the base cards, I opted for the last 7 Jumbo packs and executed another raid on the singles boxes. As long as there are Twins, Rockies and Expos that I need in them, that’s a better use of my money than unopened wax of a product that does little for m...