Only one I can find a photo of (Bryan, Texas, across the street from Chicken Oil Co.):
Store began like as TriState Sporting Goods (and both antlers on the moose). TriState moved out to a 22,000sf location in Townshire Shopping Center. Right about that time a windstorm knocked an antler off.
Then, it became Lassiter's Outfitters, and it lazed on as a hole in the wall. There were paperwork issues and ATF asked them to take a vacation from being in business. About that time Eddie Sullivan and his dad bought the place up, and it became Sullivan's Outfitters. Then, it really became hole-in-the wall, with a cadre of codgers (and would-be codgers) who would endlessly gab on anything and everything under the sun, and occasionally were interrupted by people actually buying gun stuff [
]. Eddie got bit hard by the archery bug, and the recession clobbered gun sales, so the store gained an archery range, and eventually stopped being in the gun biz.
No photo of my other hole-in-the-wall--Tres Agggie Gun. A narrow joint wedged into Culpepper Plaza shopping center. A couple of vets and their buddy riding the peak of the cheap surplus market and having at least one partner to send off to gun shows for more deals. Another place that grew 'regulars'--some of whom actually bought stuff [
] Place broke up when one of the partners relocated to WY. Bought a ton of ammo, and more than a few guns in there--more than paid my "rent" for leaning on counters.
Miss those joints.