Army-navy Store Near Me - A U-Haul is parked outside Uncle Sam's Navy Outfitter store on 8th Street, as the thrift store closed yesterday after 20 years in Greenwich Village.

Owner Richard Geist was in the middle of packing with other workers. "We're more than a store, we're a service [for] veterans who want to bury their fathers in military uniform, theater people, Halloween," Geist said.

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Geist, who moved from Toronto and opened the store at age 24, chose its location, between 6th and 5th avenues, for its story. "The village is the center of the creative world," he said. "It all started here."

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Uncle Sam's is just off Jimi Hendrix's Lady Electric Studio, where artists such as Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Lorde, Adele and Frank Ocean have recorded music.

Last year, Geist was part of a campaign with 8th Street retailer Storm Ritter, whose store also closed, to rename West 8th Street in honor of Jimi Hendrix Way, accepting the participation of famous musicians in the neighborhood. Their petition has more than 20,000 signatures, Geist said. Although it is not yet final, Geist said that the City has already announced that it will not honor their request, and said that Hendricks does not have a positive influence on New York. That's when he knew he had to get off Route 8, Geist said.

"Can you imagine people from all over the world coming to JFK, and walking down those streets?" Geist said. “We've always been worse than a warehouse; Starbucks, McDonald's, that's all you see, just chains."

Mayor "Mike" Abo, who owns Mind Bogler Shoes, stopped by to ask Geist how much he paid U-Haul. "I don't believe we'll be here before 2019," said Abo, who opened his store in 1988. "We do a lot of business online, but there's no money in it."

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Monk Thrift Shop recently closed its 27-year location at West 8th and McDougal streets. A sign in the vacant store directs customers to its locations in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Geist hopes to reopen Uncle Sam's on Orchard Street on the east side. Additional store locations will remain open in Toronto and Buffalo.

At one point he asked my name, and fumbled around in the pile for a second before handing me a carved wooden board.

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