Shopping In Charlotte?!

[J Curling]

Ok, it's closing in. THE VAN HALEN NORDIC INVASION leaves the Swedish ground on Wednesday and arrives in Charlotte later the same day in the evening.

A party of 7, ready to party and experience the reunion/reinvention of the decade. Or century!

My pal didn't settle for Hyman's "this is America, you'll find anything" answer :-) However I must direct a BIG thanks to Hyman for his overall support.

So - Can anybody advise us on where to go in Charlotte for:

1. Boots (for your feet..)
2. Music - vinyl record stores..
3. Asics shoes, guess there are footlockers all over?...

Also, is that bus thing happening?
How many are hooking up before the show?!

Looking forward to seeing you and Van Halen in less than a week.

Appreciate your shopping tips! We're staing at the Ctr City Courtyard Marriott, so it's just next to the Bobcats Arena..

[Tiki-Tom]

Haven't been to Charlotte in a long time but they used to have some great music stores.


....note to Sparkie...sign me off when you want to post.

[SparkieD]

Oops...

My hairdresser (who lives in Charlotte part time) told me to go to a place called Southpark. She said it's the best place for shopping there.

As for meet ups, Tiki and I intend to meet every Roth Army soldier there.

[J Curling]

Tiki, Sparkie, Hyman, The Nordic Crew and some... sounds good to me.

F#ck it's just another 6 days....

Keep the shopping tips a comin'

[weesfreewheelin]

Best shopping would be either Southpark Mall or Concord Mills Mall. Go here to see

http://www.visitcharlotte.com/default.asp?charlotte=57&urlkeyword=Shopping&page=2

Music? The only one real record store thats still around is Manifest Discs. Go here

http://www.manifestdisc.com/

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Originally posted by J Curling
So - Can anybody advise us on where to go in Charlotte for:

1. Boots (for your feet..)
2. Music - vinyl record stores..
3. Asics shoes, guess there are footlockers all over?...

Why do I have visions of the 1980 Russian Olympic hockey team ?? Ya know, just here for the jeans, yadda, yadda....

Just kidding fellas, you guys are gonna have a great time....

[Hyman Roth]

Originally posted by J Curling
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My pal didn't settle for Hyman's "this is America, you'll find anything" answer :-) However I must direct a BIG thanks to Hyman for his overall support.

LMAO!! See you in 6 days. Maybe I will come a little early and hit the record stores with you guys?

[J Curling]

Hyman, you're welcome to browse the stores. I seriously consider the pool :-)

Va Beach VH Fan - what the f#ck :-)
Well actually Sweden is not part of the Eastern Europe... But Asics are twice as expensive here as there... Sick..

weesfreewheelin - thanks for the links!

Hope to join ya'll for a drink soon, are all of you going to both Charlotte and Greensboro? There's been so much said I can't keep track of everyone's gig plans anymore..

[J Curling]

But Asics are twice as expensive here as there... Sick..

I mean Asics are twice as expensive in Sweden as in the US....

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Pojo and I will see you all in Greensboro at Fat Dog/Puppies...

[J Curling]

Hyman. We're arriving late Wednesday. We plan on picking up our tkts at Will call Thursday morning. Since we have double tkts for Charlotte we want to try and lose them during the day.. we'll see how that goes... Hopefully we'll get some of the $$$ back. Charlotte reads sold out on ticket master, hope there's not another drop comin'..

So, guess there will be some time for shopping on Thursday and Friday. But I am thinking of just kicking back on Thursday. Maybe a little pool, maybe a little running and eventually the bar... Don't want to drink to much before the show, want to remember this experience...

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by weesfreewheelin
Music? The only one real record store thats still around is Manifest Discs. Go here

http://www.manifestdisc.com/

Damn. I thought they shut down every Manifest. It used to be the best music store around, especially in the days of vinyl.

[Bluestreak]

Best music store in Charlotte is Manifest. It's on South Blvd. For shopping go to South Park Mall. It's sort of near Manifest music. You could hit both in the same trip.

Where are you guys staying? Charlotte is a little tricky to navigate. The streets change names every few blocks. Good luck trying to figure out which way to turn when you are the intersection of queens road and queens road.

[J Curling]

We're staying at the Courtyard Charlotte City Center, 237 S. Tryon Street.

Looks like it's very close to the arena.. close to shopping too? We have a SUV though so we are mobile...

[Bluestreak]

There isn't much shopping in Downtown Charlotte. You need to drive to shopping. Take south Blvd to Fairlawn. Go left on Fairlawn and you will see south park mall on the left.

To get on south blvd from downtown get onto Brevard Street. Brevard turns into south blvd after it crosses over the freeway. If you get confused look for the pink highrise condo on the edge f downtown. The pink condo (you can't miss it) is on south blvd. Follow south blvd away from downtown and this will take you to fairlawn. Manifest music is on South Blvd also. I don't know if it's before or after the fairlawn intersection. Manifest is hard to spot. It's on the left side of the road and is part of a strip mall. I've lived in Charlotte for three years and I still have a hard time spotting manifest music. It doesn't help having south blvd all torn up as the city instals our new commuter train.