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28. Did Homegrown really start of a small mom and pop video store in San Diego?

Homegrown Video started in a guy named Greg Swaim's video store in San Diego. He started selling his swinger tapes along with the other adult stuff in the back of the shop in Del Mar and things just sort of took off.

When we bought the company though it was on a dusty little street that literally had tumbleweeds rolling down it in a city way east of San Diego called Lakeside. The place always troubled me because I couldn't for the life of me figure out where the heck the lake was. A big rodeo happens there and I honestly thought that every day at High Noon there would be a showdown in the streets outside. The actual office looked like a ghost town because it was located mostly in the back of a retail storefront property. There was absolutely no retail in the actual storefront, only lots of dust and sort of decrepit furniture strewn about which seemed more likely to be the decorating efforts of hobos who salvaged the box cars on the retired E train.

We moved out of there quicker than you could say "draw you varmit".

Then we moved to an office/warehouse style space with a big contracting company across from us. Apparently the window office across from us was the most coveted space to work in and was rewarded as a perk of distinction.

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