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Paxton Gate is a curious and enchanting treasure trove of unique gifts and traditional garden fare. If you're looking for yard supplies, they do have them: pruning shears, pots, bulbs, potting soil. But the...
citysearch.com - expert review - 10/20/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have walked by a thousand times, literally, I have walked by one thousand times, and never once have I entered this gate. I think the big giraffe head had something to do with me never entering.…
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Taxidermy mice dressed up as the Pope, barrels and drawers filled with miscellaneous flora and fauna, flotsam and jetsam, an exotic plant nursery featuring the flesh-eating varieties, and that's just…
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE STUFFED ANIMALS AT PAXTON GATE. If you don't like meat, don't go to a steakhouse. Stop wasting everyone's time complaining and just don't go in. People act like the employees…
yelp.com - user review - 09/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Paxton Gate is the epitome of amazing. It loses a star because I have never felt like the staff is the epitome of amazing. C'mon, why doesn't anyone who works here seem thrilled or excited. They seem…
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
if you've ever had any level of fascination with dead things, carnivorous plants, or loose tea you need to go here. they even let dogs in...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Let me not beat around the garden bush. Paxton Gate has dead stuffed endangered animals on display including a lion and a bison. I thought to myself, "These can't possibly be real?" So I asked the…
yelp.com - user review - 08/11/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The selection in this store is dreamy. It's a very cultured Martha Stewart meets Vincent Price kinda place. I'm happy to see that others share my love for botanical and biological illustration.As a…
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i've been going to this place since it was in that vortex of an alley near mission, valencia, van ness and market. it's fukking rad and i've been pinning bugs ever since. sure my girlfriends of the…
yelp.com - user review - 08/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
A gift store for Ph. D's. Creepy-cool collection for the naturalist with goth sensibilities. I imagine that this store is a carbon copy of a 1880's Museum of Curiosities.
yelp.com - user review - 07/30/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
i've never bought anything from them but i still love going in there. they have pretty much the coolest stuff to just go look at! tons of plants, fossils, dead bugs, science project stuff, animal…
yelp.com - user review - 07/24/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
revolving coral, mineral, insect and orchid selection, a must for when i can't make it to the jungle or to the lab. a museum where you can actually buy it's contents, whenever i'm feeling sort of blah…
yelp.com - user review - 07/17/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Super cool store, like nothing else I have ever been in. They have a great outdoor garden in the back, be sure not to miss that. It is a good place to go stand for 5 minutes and process all the…
yelp.com - user review - 07/15/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I feel like Jumanji has come to life every time I walk into this trove of curiosities. Half museum and half mad-scientist lab, you have got to check this place out if you have never been.
yelp.com - user review - 07/11/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
How can you pass up a store with a life sized lion displayed in the window above the store entrance? It's a really cool store. It's like a natural science lab/museum combined with a garden shop. There…
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I've died and entered taxidermy heaven. I love this sort of stuff - macabre, interesting, creepy. Animal bones, stuffed animal heads, creepy plants - I practically wet my jeans when I walked in. The…
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Not for the squeemish. I absolutely love it and have spent a solid hour here just browsing the stuffed costumed mice, the plants, the various animal bones, the jewelry, and so forth. Check out their…
yelp.com - user review - 06/18/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
How can anyone pass by this store and not take a look? A Natural Science Museum/store with the coolest little gadgets I've ever seen. Unique stationary, succulents, glass eyes, animal bones. You can…
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm ob-freakin-sessed about this place. How can it be macabre, cute and elegant all at once? It's got an ideal location for strolling in after dinner in the Mission and just wandering in awe at all…
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
best store to ever exist. great for the science nerd at heart.
yelp.com - user review - 05/25/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
need a mouse dressed up as a princess? or beautiful pot & plants... this is the place to spend a sunday afternoon.
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Five stars for just the smell. If they could bottle & sell that, I'd be broke!
yelp.com - user review - 05/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The window displays always freak me out a little bit, but a friend suggested going there for air plants so I braved it and walked into what seems like an old scientific lab. However, the atmosphere of…
yelp.com - user review - 05/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is the perfect store to go on a random treasure hunt in! I really like to just browse around shops like these because if you look hard enough, you can always find something that you missed on…
yelp.com - user review - 05/03/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
For all things bone. You can find skeletons of squirrels, raccoons, skunks, etc. Need raccoon claws? Got 'em. Need mice dressed up all Gothic like? Got that too. Need a deer's head for your…
yelp.com - user review - 05/03/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My mom is a teacher. If you have a kid, she's the teacher you wish your kid had. Several times a year she takes 11 and 12 year old hormonally challenged hellions camping for what is often the first…
yelp.com - user review - 05/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
What a crazy little boutique of Jurassic delights! Did I buy the chocolate covered bugs for my sister just to see her reaction? Yes. Did I also get her the excavation kit to keep her busy that she…
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Jesus Christ man.....this store has created a monster! Since my first visit to Paxton and about 20 exoctic plants and succelents later, I have become obsessed with green and anything that grows-hence,…
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Paxton Gate makes San Francisco a better place to live, window shop, explore, and inspire your self and your friends! Kylea the manager is knowledgeable on many of the oddities and/or their history. I…
yelp.com - user review - 04/10/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i could spend hours in this place, every time i go i feel like i'm on a field trip! they have everything from tiny bottles, taxidermy, strange trinkets, plants and even local artwork! it's a dream…
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If I dreamed up the best store in the whole world, it still wouldn't be as awesome as Paxton's Gate. I'm like a kid with her allowance money in this place, wandering around for an hour, and then…
yelp.com - user review - 03/31/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Paxton Gate is super cool. Half museum/half store. Not too bad prices on really unique items, with super helpful staff. And yes, it does remind me of dissecting owl pellets in 7th grade.
yelp.com - user review - 03/31/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Like a Victorian cupboard brought to life but focused on unusual flora and fauna. For example, owl pellets (with mouse remains or bird remains - take your pick), the costumed rats, animal brains in…
yelp.com - user review - 03/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you want to buy beautiful dead things this is the place for you. Fossils, taxidermied small animals dressed up like the pope, framed butterflies.. CAN YOU SAY....MACABRE VICTORIAN DREAM!!!???!!
yelp.com - user review - 03/18/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Owl pellets! When owls and other birds of prey eat, they are left with a bunch of indigestible matter in their stomaches - skulls, claws, teeth, etc. They puke them up in something called a pellet,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Where else can you shop for a venus fly trap, bits of animal skulls, teeth, and assorted bones, fossils, old books, and a taxidermized mouse dressed up like angel, all in the same store? If I ever win…
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is my favorite store in the city, period. I love everything they sell in it. The plants and the jewelry and the dead animals and the books and the insects... it's all so beautiful in this kind…
yelp.com - user review - 03/06/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is a great Store, it has allot to offer for the horticulturist, to the Goth, to the historian. I have to say it does remind me of the indoor garden area of Morticia Adams home in the TV show.…
yelp.com - user review - 03/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I am in love with this store. Can you say MACABRE? I never realized there are other people as weird as me until I found this store. It's so me. If you are looking for something truly original this…
yelp.com - user review - 02/14/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Quite possibly the most fascinating store, ever, and so fun to browse. Still, I'm curious as to who actually buys anything from here? I can't imagine filling my home with a full sized taxidermied…
yelp.com - user review - 02/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
You remember those freaky school kids in elementary and middle school, the ones who totally got off dissecting frogs and sheeps and then would remove themselves socially at recess by climbing trees…
yelp.com - user review - 02/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Ok, so I'm not so into the taxidermied mice dressed in weird costumes, and not that excited about the petrified animal poop. But pretty much everything else here rocks my world. You see, I have what…
yelp.com - user review - 02/03/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Why oh why is the stuffed Candian goose midflight with an alligator head (poised open for attack) not for sale??? I knew I wanted it when I saw it and now that you have told me I can not have it, I am…
yelp.com - user review - 01/29/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I once got outbid on ebay for a box of antique glass eyes and it ruined my week. "But WHY, Skye?! WHY DO YOU NEED A BOX OF GLASS EYEBALLS? You're not an ophthalmologist. You and everyone you know has…
yelp.com - user review - 01/26/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
ever wonder what to get that hard to please loved one? perhaps they would like a hollowed out ostrich egg? no?
yelp.com - user review - 01/25/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It was an interesting place. I like places like this...but...I am not into taxidermy...scares me!
yelp.com - user review - 01/10/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I've only been here once, so maybe I shouldn't review it. But what the hell, this store is filled with things I've never seen before. I went there months ago and still remember it. It's what I'd…
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I share my humble abode with a vegetarian and an animal, so all the deer heads mounted in the apartment are, sadly, fake. I come to Paxton every time I stop into Modern Times for a new book, just to…
yelp.com - user review - 12/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I've never spent so much time pining over taxidermy and mounted bugs. I'm hoping that somebody got me a Jackalope from this store for the holidays, but if they didn't I'll gladly buy my own. This…
yelp.com - user review - 12/18/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
if it wasn't for paxton gate i would have a hell of a time aquiring my raccoon penis bones. this store is really great... when and what i will every need to buy from here i do not know, but i will…
yelp.com - user review - 12/15/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
"Hooray for Captain Spaulding! The African explorer...
yelp.com - user review - 12/12/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Dear San Francisco, My grandfather, Jakob Kerrill -shortened from some ungodly communistic Ukrainian name upon his passage to Amerika - was a madly passionate mushroom hunter. He snuck up on those…
yelp.com - user review - 12/10/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The perfect combination of "who the hell needs that" and "who wouldn't want one of those." I was excited to see that Paxton Gate carried owl pellets. I think it would be fun to dissect some with my…
yelp.com - user review - 11/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is the store to nurture to 8 year-old mad biologist in all of us. I've never wanted so many dead things before. I never seriously considered decorating with animal skeletons until I stopped here.…
yelp.com - user review - 11/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is my (second) favorite store in the city.... plants, penis bones, cat skeletons, bugs, knot-tying rope kits...
yelp.com - user review - 11/01/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
They have all the taxidermy, carnivorous plants, mounted insects, and skeletal material a girl could ask for. I could decorate my whole house at this place - and if I had a yard, I'd definitely employ…
yelp.com - user review - 10/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I really don't know what to say about this place. Part Nine inch Nails video, part bookstore, part plant nursery, all cool. Incredible selection of bugs, animal bones, and gemstones. Easily in my top…
yelp.com - user review - 10/21/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
FINALLY!! A place to buy raccoon penises. Jeesh, you'd think they'd be easier to find in this liberal mecca we don't call Frisco. You can find a huge variety of dead animals and their bones here, as…
yelp.com - user review - 10/15/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I want everything in this store but I can't afford any of it. Plus I don't have space for that much stuff. And if I bought everything then there wouldn't be a store left and that wouldn't be cool…
yelp.com - user review - 10/12/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh my god.
yelp.com - user review - 09/30/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
while this place has an extremely strange assortment of cool things I can't give it a 5. There is one person who works there that assumes that you don't want your change if it's less than a dollar.…
yelp.com - user review - 09/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This store was made for me: live plants, dead animals, scary books and tea! They have raccoon teeth if you ever need some.
yelp.com - user review - 09/17/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Disturbingly beautiful. It's a store full of cabinets of curiosities. Here you'll find pinned beetles, butterflies, skulls of turtles and ravens and all sorts, dinosaurs teeth, fox claws, etc.…
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
While wandering down Valencia St., I was looking for some new plants so my boyfriend and I walked in. I went straight to the back to admire the plants, which were gorgeous. My boyfriend got a little…
yelp.com - user review - 09/08/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If it were up to me I would put a closed sign out front and make this my apartment. Plants, animals, minerals, books, art, antiques, tea? Are you kidding me? I love it! I would consolidate the…
yelp.com - user review - 09/07/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is amazing! I have a Piranha, a Puffer Fish, and some kind of mini-shark on my mantle. If I ever get ridiculously wealthy, I may need a wildebeest head in my entry way. I've seriously…
yelp.com - user review - 09/06/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Continues to have the SF market for great goods, great store display, and friendly staff. LOVE this place and always find something to buy to treat myself. Although it has been here a while on mixed…
yelp.com - user review - 09/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Neat. O. Did you know you can rent the taxidermied critters? You can! I expect one hell of a Halloween party from this discovery.
yelp.com - user review - 08/30/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Could be my favorite store in the whole world. I never really know what it is I'm looking for when I go in, but I always find it. About a month ago it was a succulent that is now growing in the…
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Good people, fascinating store! I bought a framed iridescent beetle from them about 9 years ago. I hung the beetle up on the wall and after a few months mites got at it and ate a few of the the legs…
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Love at first sight. I really dig this store and it looks like pretty much everyone does too. I'm loath to characterize it as just an interior decorating gift shop. Kids love coming here too as…
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
so here was my husbands christmas list... raven skull.
yelp.com - user review - 08/24/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
take out-of-town visitors here for a taste of what this city (and particularly this part of the city) is really like.
yelp.com - user review - 08/21/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Paxton's Gate has walls covered with peacock feathers, eyeballs of various animals, creepy GIANT bugs, and little skeleton mice dressed up and ready to go to a tea party with the name "Tea Time with…
yelp.com - user review - 08/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My favorite store in the city... get a baby plant and grow it!
yelp.com - user review - 07/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I cannot believe that I did not know about this store until now! I wandered in there with my 7-year-old nephew on Saturday. I'm not sure whose eyes were bigger, his or mine. We spent a good hour…
yelp.com - user review - 07/16/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I took my dad here and he loved it..... Dead bugs and lotsa bones. I got some tea and a cactus. It was a happy day!
yelp.com - user review - 07/12/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i am obsessed with this store. I am a child in toys'r'us who is sitting on the ground throwing a fit because i want more. i've gotten so many cool weird plants here its to the point of ridic. i have…
yelp.com - user review - 07/12/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Sure some items are a bit spendy but you don't have to even buy anything for the trip to be worth your while. It's like a gallery of things I will eventually break down and buy. But not necessarily…
yelp.com - user review - 07/08/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
necrophilia fantasy
yelp.com - user review - 07/05/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is what my sweetest dreams are made of. Taxidermy, preserved insects, shells, carniverous plants, tea, skulls!! Seriously, way to have a store about every random thing that I love.
yelp.com - user review - 06/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Walking into Paxton Gate is like being a kid again. A sense of wonderment fills you. Remember the first time you saw something spectacular and were filled with awe... well it's a little like that,…
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I found the hip-faux-old-school-ness of this place to be a little irritating. (Signs all over the place about no cell phones, no cameras, and price tags that were made with old stamper things). I'd…
yelp.com - user review - 05/30/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
At some point during my childhood I wanted to be an archaeologist. It was around the same time as wanting to be a marine biologist, but because I was about 6 miles from the beach and mommy and daddy…
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Do you have an eccentric old aunt who lives in a run-down mansion and collects Victorian bell jars and rare mounted butterflies? A great-uncle who has his own Zen Garden and likes to practice…
yelp.com - user review - 05/08/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love this store. I get that all the bones and taxodermy might freak some people out, I happen to like it, but they also have art, exotic plants and beautiful natural artifacts. I come here all the…
yelp.com - user review - 04/18/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
you know, yelp, you're right - i *might* like paxton gate, since it's next to 826 valencia. i just might, since it's down the street from dog eared. but i don't, because it's creepy. i like pirate…
yelp.com - user review - 04/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
fine, fine, fine: hulagirl's a big weirdo. you should've seen hulamom's face when i showed her the tiny stuffed mouse dressed as hamlet i got for hulaboy in december 2005. she still hasn't…
yelp.com - user review - 04/15/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Does taxidermy fascinate you? They have a lot of stuff here, on the walls and around the store. I also liked looking at the insects on pins.. very cool in a freaky way No pictures (allowed)
yelp.com - user review - 03/26/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Cool. Crazy. Funky. A little Creepy. Really, you'd just have to visit to understand - but I'll do my best to paint a disjointed mental picture...
yelp.com - user review - 03/20/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
random random random. that is the only word i can muster up to describe this treasure trove of.... .... random. great place to buy gifts for your weirder loved ones, and a nice place to just browse…
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
the aesthetic paxton gate imposes with its taxidermy & what not comes across as rather passe at this point, but it is fun to peruse the oddities here. a curiosity shop in 21st century america is a…
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Where else are you going to find a red fox penis bone? I also appreciate the signage pointing out that the stuffed giraffe met its demise by a leopard attack and not some nasty poaching practices.…
yelp.com - user review - 02/27/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have always loved this store. The taxidermy is my favorite, but they have a great selection of plants and fossils and atypical accoutrement. One of my favorite purchases was a taxidermied bat, but…
yelp.com - user review - 02/26/2007
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