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  • Note #1: SW Randall also has stores in Squirrel Hill and Shadyside, but this Dowtown Pittsburgh location is the largest. Note #2: There is a 3rd floor, but I was told that it is closed during the summer due to the heat and only contains dolls. Toys: If they stop fascinating you, then your inner child has died tragically. Last week, for the first time in all my years in Pittsburgh, I made my way into SW Randall's store to merely kill time. After telling the middle-aged gent running the store (a person I'll refer to as the Toykeeper) that I just wanted to have a look about the place, I walked out with a ceramic, bat-winged goth fairy for my beloved. The aisles of the store seemed to go on without end, and I was only on the first floor. I said to the Toykeeper, "Man, I never knew this place was so big! I've never been in here before. I thought it was just a little gift shop." "Yeah, we get that a lot," the Toykeeper said. And a lot is what they carry. Competing for my attention were men of tin, bugs that scurried about when knobs on their sides were cranked, greeting cards, dragons, superheroes of plastic, princesses of glass, beings of imagination, creations of mirth... Upstairs, I was greeted by the Apprentice, a 20ish man who was rather tickled when I told him that I write reviews on area businesses. Here could be found action figures, educational toys, card games, miniature soldiers, toy trains, and myriad other things that run feathers along the brain. The entire inventory of amusement entranced a mother and son who were visiting from Houston as well as myself. To think that in SW Randall's 42 years and my 38, I had never been inside the place before. Had I come to this spellbinding emporium at the age of 9, Toys R Us and Children's Palace would have been quickly forgotten along with Transformers, GI Joe, and Masters of the Universe. Bring your children here. Bring your nieces and nephews. Bring yourselves. SW Randall is a true Downtown treasure trove of wonderment. Help keep them around for another 4 decades.The digital age will hopefully leave them with nary a scratch. P.S. One has to crack a smile over how they spell "toyes" and how it instantly conjures a magical era long since past.
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