Hobby Shops near Arroyo Grande, CA

“Located just outside the Pismo Beach area. 15 minutes from SLO ....we took the opportunity to check this shop out and it was worth our experience. Its a small, true sports memorabilia shop but houses plenty of memory bilia. Lots of frames, autographed items, and individual cards. Plenty for the young collector to 'awe' over and look thru and enough for the ol collecta to really appreciate. The owner is a welcoming host! (I mean, i read some reviews and i can see where people Can deem him to come off uninviting on the initial walk in but thats probably because ur a tourist and/or do not understand the M.O. of visiting a memorabila shop....show respect, get respect. As far as the shop, its like checking out a small museum ....sports memorabilia holds extended monetary value, LOOK, don't really need to touch!) Anyways....the owner knows his memorabilia and is a real collector ...Ol skool! We had a cool conversation and talked sports. He was nice to my kids and even enlightened my kid on some sports trivia. ...all while my 10 year old did some browsing and shopping for sports cards. Overall...fun experience and glad we came in. If you are in town, stop by!”

“After going ATV riding it was still early in the day so we decided to go to a card shop nearby to look for some stuff. Whenever we go on trips now, Hubby wants to find card shops so that we can test our luck. We found Games Exchange on Yelp and decided to come by to see what they had. As we were pulling into the parking lot we saw someone in a Pikachu suit! It was really cool. When we went in there were a bunch of different stuff, cards, movies, games, etc. Hubby opt to buy some single cards and some other stuff that I can't quite remember right now. The owner (?) I believe was super nice and very informative. Any questions that we had he happily answered for us. We will definitely be coming back to this spot whenever we are in the area again!”

“I love this place. My goodness, they even have my Traxxas Hoss body that has been discontinued! There are other sections for just about any hobby you can imagine. I think this is a great place for kids, young adults and elders. They even have a few Rage RC planes for beginner pilots like me. I came there specifically for repairs to my steering column on the Traxxas Hoss. I drove it a little hard along the beach. I was worried that they didn't sell spare parts because Yelp's pictures made it look like it's not a serious hobby place. I'm glad I called because Zach said they got "some parts". One thing he got wrong is that they don't just have some parts but they have everything for Traxxas and Armas! Prices are fair and I encourage all of you to always support your local stores. Zach knows a lot about these RC trucks. I'm able to potentially diagnose another problem and possibly fix it when I get home. He doesn't do repairs at the time of this writing because it just takes up too much time. I totally understand and I hope he can someday find time again as some of us wouldn't mind paying for the service. I bought a few other parts I may need in the future, and I now found a hobby home in the Pismo area.”

“I can usually find what I need quickly it's a nice layout. I wish more people were at the registers sometimes, but everyone is really nice. Lines just build quickly. I imagine it's stressful for 1 worker.”

“After driving past too many times, I finally decided to check it out. For some reason, I thought it had something to do with hobbies, like woodworking or crafts, for people who had time to craft. But I was amazed by the many spectacular interesting "projects" that would actually be fun to do. But more than that, I realized, they have an extraordinary array of silk plants and flowers that actually look real. I've yet to explore the rest of the store because the faux garden shop got my intention. The quality is exceptional and the pieces I selected are well-made and actually look real. This will be my new "hobby" seeking new things to do that give me great peace and joy. Oh, and also just want to add that they had an incredible sale on the Luminara candles (Wickless) that really look beautiful in my home.”

“So have not been to Michael's in sometime and of course, like everything else it's changed. In the past, I bought some beautiful silk flower arrangements and you really can't find them now. I went in to get two frames and I wanted metal, like a turquoise color. Didn't find anything, but I found navy blue that work for two prints. Still some nice stuff and I did get the frames buy one get one 50% off so that really helps. Sometimes the frames cost more than the prints. I saw a lot of nice things I like, but I'm downsizing so did not want to go overboard.”