OUR BUILDING
The 1937 warehouse Memory Den inhabits was originally a meat and produce distribution center for many years. The train that runs behind the building to this day would actually stop and unload meat directly into the basement via the infamous meat chute, though that access has long since been bricked and boarded up. You can find an original framed blueprint of the grocery that was located on the top floor in the customer bathroom near the radio wall.
For a few years in the 1970s, the building was used as indoor batting cages. You can still find remnants from these days all around the upstairs area; homebases painted on the floor, the odd baseball on a windowsill. Keep an eye out!
The building then became Coast Auto Supply beginning in the early 1980s. Coast Auto Supply closed its doors in 2017, and the building sat vacant for five years until Memory Den moved, from its original location on NE Broadway, to its current home.
