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Amused Clothing
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The American used Clothing Co. Mr. Bob's Amused Clothing is one of the original skate shops in Bloomington, Indiana. Owned by Mr. Bob it is located at 212 W. 4th Street in Bloomington, Amused moved to this location in august of 2006 from it's old home at 208 S. Dunn St. Amused also has a locations in West Lafayette and one in Lafayette Indiana. Since it opened in Bloomington in 1991 Amused has provided a swell variety of new and vintage clothing, skateboards and skateboard hardgoods, Sector 9 longboards, Tapestries, mucklucks, Nagchampa and other fine imported Incense, a wide selection of skate shoes including Adio, Emerica, Es, Osiris and DC. In addition Amused offers many other strange and interesting marvels of the 20th century. Amused also boasts the best, highest quality, selection of locally made hand-blown glass smoking accessories and is the premier location for such varietials in the state of Indiana. hookahs, Starbuzz hookah tobacco, used vinyl records, and stuff.
Amused features vaporizers of all kinds including Volcano vaporizers, Digi-Vape, and portible vaporizers such as the Vapor Genie or I-Inhale. Amused also carries a radical array of waterpipes from providers such as HVY, Left coast, and NL5. Amused currently offers Bulk Incense at the standard rate of 20 sticks for one American dollar giving Amused the best customer value on incense in the mainland United States. Fun things to do at Amused consist of playing games of skate in the street, getting great deals on headdy glass, or finding some of the more fun and bizarre fashions and traditions known to the community.
Amused Clothing has given many jobs to skateboarders and students. Bob has a tight crew of hard working individuals like Keddy McClain, Jake Kilar, Trent, Kelly, Dill, Satish, Jason and Ian. Most of Amused's employees are skaters, some of whom are sponsored by Amused Skate shop. Younger sponsored skaters are also given small jobs or chores in exchange for store credit, this involves a great deal of skateboarding back and forth from Taco Bell etc... In addition the skateboard team does live events and contests such as the insanely popular Philfest 09' held at the Bloomington Skate Park in August of 2009. Philfest was centered around three different skateboarding events vs. Phil, live music by local hip-hop artists 2mics and a kit, Elephant Quiz, and a White Castle eating contest.
Art is everywhere in Bloomington's community. Most artists know Amused as being one of the best places in town to network and stuff. Canvasses are available for sale by Sk8ter Jake, who just introduced his new line of characters only at Amused in Bloomington. The store is also home to artwork by Joel Washington, Chris Markovich, Jetone, Brisk, and others from the underground art/skateboarding community.
Amused has two big sale times each year which revolve around the weeks of 4/20 or 10/20 every six months, these sales usually last from 4 days to a week, with discounts from 15%/50% on all items storewide, in addition the stores usually call upon the talents of the local pool of glassblowers to construct promotional/functional artwork which is offered for some sort of game. This of course is strictly a promotion and is always a fun way for someone to win an object so outlandish one could never, or would never buy one for oneself.
Amused features Handmade blown glass critters by Kemp Curtis.
Amused is open from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. 12 to 6 on Sunday. 1-812-332-8733(used)
