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3.0 of 5 stars.
Always fun to search the bins and displays. Many treasures have made their way into my artwork. It's a little more boutique-y since their move to Telegraph, but the displays are inspiring. My quibble...
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place had exactly what I needed the service was friendly and quick. I love yelp for giving a forum to celebrate companies such as this.
yelp.com - user review - 09/23/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I love this store. I love to buy crappy knick-knacks and make half-baked "art" or send random postcards and stickers to far-flung friends from high school and college. I'm also on a strict 105% of...
yelp.com - user review - 09/07/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
As advertised, this is the place to go if you are creative and on a budget; they have just about anything you might want to reuse for art projects, slightly quirky home decorating, or other crafty...
yelp.com - user review - 07/22/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Super cheap. Assembly required. I used to think I was pretty creative until I came here. I just don't know what to do with a ball of yarn, a bucket of golf balls and a stack of credit card strays....
yelp.com - user review - 07/13/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
My son and I used to shop here when they were on San Pablo quite frequently. We lived within walking distance and we got great deals on art supplies and junk. I'm a preschool teacher and had an...
yelp.com - user review - 07/05/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
terrible service.wonderful scavenging. i found dental impressions and a tokyo bay clock for $5.over all satisfactory.
yelp.com - user review - 06/15/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
this place is a must for the thrifty eco-conscious crafter. on my do-to list for my summer break were two things: get my long-delayed craft on, and don't spend millions while doing it. the EBD has me...
yelp.com - user review - 06/10/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Love to HATE it. sigh. ok, well I kinda love digging through piles of crap to find my crafty golden egg as much as the next hunter gatherer. shopping here always makes me feel dirty though,...
yelp.com - user review - 06/09/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I wanted to stock up on loot for activities to do with kids at work and the 'Depot' was perfect. This place is such a gem, I will absolutely come back soon!!
yelp.com - user review - 05/30/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Score! I fucking LOVE the Depot.It's your destination for DIY interior decorating, arts & crafts, bulk supplies and great for classroom crafts. Some of the stuff I've come across:- awesome "vintage"...
yelp.com - user review - 05/27/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I just recently enlisted as a yelpster.It's been a while since my last visit to Creative Reuse and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on the review, but I do want to acknowledge them with maxi...
yelp.com - user review - 05/23/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
How have I lived in Oakland for 5 years and never gone here?This place is the bomb. It's perfect for finding trinkets for decorating your apartment. I found a nice canvas to hang in my living room...
yelp.com - user review - 03/28/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I see myself as a CREATIVE soul... and the East Bay Depot is an easy place to call my workshop! I first encountered them for months during my drive home from work... I always wondered if they provided...
yelp.com - user review - 03/17/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Dear Santa,I know it's only March, but I've decided to only give gifts that are a) liquor or b) that I've made myself. So I need supplies for the rest of the year, and there's where you come in....
yelp.com - user review - 03/05/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Here's where I found:Antique red glass beads $25 silver earrings $4silk scarf 75 cents10 cool greeting cards (pay by the inch)baby doll limbs (priceless)
yelp.com - user review - 02/10/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love love love this place still, I go back all the time because they are always getting new stuff. You never know what you're going to find!!! I can easily spend two hours here searching through...
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Awesome.I had no idea this existed until my friend brought me here the other day. What a fantastic concept, and what a great mess of stuff to look through. When I walked in I saw this amazing,...
yelp.com - user review - 02/08/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A lot of the charm lays in the presentation--they're always pushing you towards creative new ideas. I picked up some especially great hardcover book covers for bookmaking. It's also a nice place to...
yelp.com - user review - 02/07/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
this place is a mess! crap strewn everywhere. some stuff i would buy, if i first took three hours to unearth it from the pile of crap it was buried under. i mean really, they sell used toilet paper...
yelp.com - user review - 02/02/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is awesome. I consider myself the artsy crafty type that doesn't have much time to be artsy and craftsy, so I come here. Someone else was already pursuing a creative idea and for some...
yelp.com - user review - 02/02/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Love, Love, Love this place! One of my passions is taking old stuff and giving them a new life... if you're like me... then you HAVE to try this place. 1. free parking2. great prices! I have...
yelp.com - user review - 01/11/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
It is an awesome place. You can find the most wonderfully random things. The reason they only get three stars is because this nasty woman who works there. She terrible attitude, and was very rude and...
yelp.com - user review - 01/04/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is the type of place that is ideal if you have a lot of time to spare, have a really "unique" project you are working on or need to find that ONE THING that you are pretty sure no one else will...
yelp.com - user review - 01/02/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Yay for East Bay Depot!We found exactly what we were looking for:Eyeglass case-35 centsPlastic prize balls-you know the kind you see in those little vending machines.A wooden (not fiberboard) narrow...
yelp.com - user review - 12/31/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I go here EVERY Sunday after the Temescal market. This is the best store of almost all time. Especially coming from someone who thrives on junk that no one else wants.There is entirely too much to...
yelp.com - user review - 12/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Awesomeness! This place has rocked my universe for years. The new location is a lot more organized than the old one, and there's so much goodness to be had.My best Depot find of all time: old glass...
yelp.com - user review - 12/15/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
1. I always get the sense that they think I'm going to steal something. Like empty film cannisters. Really?2. They're onto my secret weaknesses for the longest, boring-est classical records and Disney...
yelp.com - user review - 12/15/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I gave it 5 stars only because i'm obsessed about stamps.They have tons and tons of rubber stamps as of 12.01.08.Hero Arts stamps for cheap...................love that.
yelp.com - user review - 12/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love this place even more now that they're selling rubber stamps by the pound! I just went this weekend and they have Hero Arts rubber stamps and sets for $8 per pound. Surprisingly a pound of...
yelp.com - user review - 12/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is the Salvation Army for crafters! You can find everything here - from tools to fabric and it's all super cheap. They even have quite a lot of random furniture too. I recently bought two old...
yelp.com - user review - 11/26/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
They are more organized at the new location and there is not nearly as much stuff but I often got lost for an hour or two at the old location so the new setup saves me time. There are plenty of...
yelp.com - user review - 11/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Awesome place! As of 11-03-08, they had uncovered a couple of surprise bins of tie silk from the back--thus defining the texture and quality of all of my holiday gifts for this year. Seriously, this...
yelp.com - user review - 11/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Wow, what a cool place. I went in looking for just a couple things, walked out with way more and spent less than I thought. Glad to support reusing other people's crap!
yelp.com - user review - 10/16/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Not quite what I expected but that's not a bad thing!I enjoyed roaming around trying to figure out what the place was about. The staff was pretty awesome and super friendly. There was even a guy...
yelp.com - user review - 09/12/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I've visited about 4 times since they've moved. I dunno, the store doesn't seem choke full of cool stuff so much, anymore. And, is it me or is the new staff more flaky than the usual bunch hippy...
yelp.com - user review - 09/10/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Where'd the gorilla in the window go? I couldn't remember the name of this place so I spent a half hour on google street view looking for this elusive gorilla the old location had in the window, only...
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I was introduced to this treasure trove by a friend only a few weeks ago... it has changed my world. What don't they have here?? We loved the plastic sign letters the most...they had complete...
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Gotta love recycle/creative place. I love this store to buy supplies for my students and art project. Always a nice surprise to just stop by the store and WOW new stuff arrive every week.
yelp.com - user review - 08/16/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
For a thrift store {which it IS, people} the depot is a:~Good place to kill time~Not a good place to get a deal on something you need~Good place for starving art students~Notsomuch a good place for...
yelp.com - user review - 08/11/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place is GREAT! Where else can you unload your stack of old linen swatches and turn around and buy closeout stamps for .50? Awesome! I used to go to the old location on San Pablo, but the new...
yelp.com - user review - 08/10/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
As a new teacher this place is incredible. I got a couple of stamps and a roll of butcher paper for 10% of what it was worth. It has lots of crap, but also lots of goldmines. I would recommend this...
yelp.com - user review - 08/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
one of my favorite places to go...art supplies galoredecorating, party, sewing, jewelry making, painting, fabric scraps, knitting...you knowart stuffif i have been in a creative slump- spending some...
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I am an art teacher and an artist, this is a great space for used and sometimes unused art supplies. I send all my students there to trawl the store. It is a great place to supplement my materials...
yelp.com - user review - 06/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
love it. i come here almost every week. usually to buy yarn, old vhs movies and games! they have the best board games ever! i just bought diplomacy which i'm actually afraid to place cause i heard it...
yelp.com - user review - 06/18/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Make things from other things? So many treasures to be found here!I actually hesitated to review this cuz I don't want it to get overpriced like Urban Ore, but there's lots of Yelps already, so I'll...
yelp.com - user review - 06/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I used to buy all my paper here for school. I'm a teacher and my stupid school doesn't buy enough of it...... budget cuts. But the last couple of times I've been there, they have nothing!! NO...
yelp.com - user review - 06/04/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Have you ever put a bunch of "beautful junk" in front of 2nd graders and challenged them only to "make something out of it"? Can you believe the sh*t they come up with?If you have, you get why this...
yelp.com - user review - 06/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I love the Depot but I loved it even more before they moved. They have shifted too far toward thrift store and have less for artists and teachers who want to buy stuff to work with their students...
yelp.com - user review - 05/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
obviously this place makes me happy.there is probably nothing in the world i like better than taking trash and turning it into art, or at least something you can use. generally, i prefer to find trash...
yelp.com - user review - 04/22/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Creepy.They've got tons of crap, TONS of it! As a preschool teacher I appreciate that. But yuk, sifting through all that crap is just not worth it. Needless to say they have some cheap stuff, they...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place rocks! I've found so many good scores here. Old french books that I use for crafts, paint, silks, dolls heads you name it. Sometimes donors even drop off some great furniture. This place is...
yelp.com - user review - 04/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
this place is dope. i love looking for weird cards to send to people. i've also gotten a chinese checkerboard and some sweet action figures. and a book on how to draw horses. perfect for weekend...
yelp.com - user review - 03/21/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Great place to fill your need of art and stationary supplies!I walked out once with a 3' x 4' white board, tons of rubber stamps, envelopes, a door mat, a small hanging mirror, and loads of wrapping...
yelp.com - user review - 03/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I use to go to the depot at it's San Pablo location, and today was my first time wandering into it's new location. It's so much bigger! And cleaner! I love their informal technique of pricing your...
yelp.com - user review - 02/29/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Stumbled upon the EBDCR web site and was intriqued by what I saw. What prompted my immediate interest was the claim of a boat load of brand new rubber stamps & stamp pads on site. My first visit was...
yelp.com - user review - 02/22/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
What a pleasure to live near this treasure! Their organization would make Martha Stewart proud - bins and labels for everything.Oh, and I'm proud to have finally found a place to find a giant bin of...
yelp.com - user review - 02/05/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A treasure trove for artists, preschool and elementary school teachers, and other creative types. Right now they have bins and bins of tie silk swatches that are begging for all kinds of interesting...
yelp.com - user review - 01/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
ya know all the cool junk in the back of a thrift store, beyond all the stupid clothes. well east bay depot is like a big store of just that. they have cool stationary stuff, old birthday cards signed...
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I've lived in the East Bay for 5 years and just stumbled across this place via yelp on Friday. I was so excited that I went yesterday. The reviews make this place sound like some kind of warehouse...
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Their new space is much brighter and perhaps larger (?), but for some reason I kinda missed their old space... seemed like they had more crap for me to go through that were cheaper too, but maybe not....
yelp.com - user review - 12/30/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Okay. Who's the mofo who bought all the cowbells? Hundreds of cruddy cheap cowbells have been sitting around in a bin all year long with no takers. Then I decided that I want to get it all for the...
yelp.com - user review - 12/17/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Super awesome store to browse....it's like a smaller, cleaner, and more organized Urban Ore. Expect to find random things here, but unlike Urban Ore, you can find many things in bulk---like tiny...
yelp.com - user review - 12/16/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If I died tomorrow and could be reincarnated as any store, I'd come back to life as a store identical to EBDCR. For the past four months, I make a near-weekly trip to the store every Saturday, rarely...
yelp.com - user review - 12/01/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I read all the raves about this place and made a special trip last week. I found it to be full of junk! The one item I was interested in was a holiday related item and the person who worked there told...
yelp.com - user review - 11/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
it's like a garage sale that never ends! all kinds of crap. milk boxes, beads, boxes, photos, cd's, trinkets, furniture, movie slates, yadda yadda...it's to roam around in. maybe something will spark...
yelp.com - user review - 11/13/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Great place for fabric swatches and other supplies for making clothing and fabric-based crafts.
yelp.com - user review - 10/22/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is ridiculously cool. It's like a perpetual garage sale. I have gone here for everything from school supplies, to stuff for art projects, even just to have some fun lookng around. I once...
yelp.com - user review - 09/10/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
When I stopped teaching and was ready to part with my teaching gear, I donated everything to this place. Now that I am working at a non-profit educational publisher, we donate other excess items to...
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm putting the kids to work this year. We're going to solve the Earth's global warming crisis with 10 billion empty cd cases, several ka-jillion mis-shapen notebook covers, and 50 million cracked...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, I Lurv you.I have found some great stuff here and it helps that I don't look for anything specific when I go. I've found 70's style roller skates, rainbow...
yelp.com - user review - 07/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
slide protector sheetsslidesone red feather earringhalf used spools of threadeighties clothing patternscontact paperstaplerframed picturesaccordion filing foldersm.... are all things that i've...
yelp.com - user review - 07/17/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is my heaven!
yelp.com - user review - 07/16/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I always find treasures here. I love this place. I have made so many art projects with the very inexpensive items I have come accross over the years. Teachers, moms, art students and all other...
yelp.com - user review - 06/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I ALWAYS find several great things to buy, whether it's cute stationary, office supplies, fabric & notions, etc. And it's always at a great deal. How many thrift or reuse stores can one say that of?...
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
having been raised on yard sales and flea markets, i know good junk when i see it. this place has just the right combination of second hand crap and raw materials to get the creative juices flowing....
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I don't know why more ppl don't know about this place. I take every one here. Teachers, kids, my mom. And they all love it. Great prices and there is always some where there to help me. Also I would...
yelp.com - user review - 06/02/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
It's nice to have a place like East Bay Depot. They have recently relocated and amazingly, the new place is well organized. Things are actually grouped into categories and separated on shelves. It...
yelp.com - user review - 06/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
As revealed in my Urban Ore review: I'm a lover of junk. My heart rate soars at the sight of piles of misfits and castoffs... I could dig through them all day. EBD certainly quenches my obsession...
yelp.com - user review - 05/31/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
When you're an arts and crafts junkie, you begin to realize that anything can be made into art. And when this particular form of enlightenment bitch slaps you in the face for buying too many expensive...
yelp.com - user review - 05/24/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
things i bought at the depot:metal photo developing tanks $52 super nintendos, 1 nes, four games, eight controllers, tv and a/c hook ups $15crappy typewriter $816mm movie 50 centsa handful of rubber...
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I LOVE this place! Unfortunately, no one I know likes going in here because it's pretty dusty and messy. But I don't mind. (Once, I took a guy there while we were, I guess, on a 'date' . His blank...
yelp.com - user review - 05/12/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm a collector of shit, that's just how I roll. I have various sizes and types of paper, countless pens without caps, hundreds of pieces of fabric, the works. This place rules my world. I can find...
yelp.com - user review - 05/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Regardless of what others have posted, I only ever go to this place for very specific things, and they always have what I'm looking for.VHS, DVD and Cd cases3 ring binders and foldersposterboard,...
yelp.com - user review - 04/29/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you like junk, or collect junk, or create cool stuff out of junk...then this is the place for you. I love junk. I collect junk. I wish I created more cool stuff out of junk.Does anyone know of a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/24/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is AWESOME!!!! I never go in looking for anything, but always seem to come out with something. My best find to date is a bunch of unused screw top test tubes. Now if I could just find a...
yelp.com - user review - 03/25/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Things I have bought at the DCR:- Naked Santa doll (not anatomically correct)- Painting of bearded fellow with flared lapels, ca. 1975 (to use for a pin-the-lapel-on-the-honky party game)- A fistful...
yelp.com - user review - 03/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm leery of the day when EBDCR finally moves to the Temescal area, because then it'll be that much closer to me, taunting me, beckoning me with their random oddities. Serendipity defines EBDCR. The...
yelp.com - user review - 01/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
there's so much random crap that is useful and well-organized here. i love it. it's a great place for someone who is crafty but doesn't have the space to store egg cartons, cardboard tubes, old...
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Strange and marvelous center for the crafter. If you are one of those people who always have a project going - welcome to Nirvana. Old magazines, books, fabric, trims, glass containers, artwork,...
yelp.com - user review - 11/30/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This is a very strange, yet cool place to dig around for buried treasures. You can't really go there for anything specific, you just have to go and rummage through all the stacks and see what you...
yelp.com - user review - 11/25/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The randomness of this place makes it fun to look through after you've visited urban ore.I once got two entire bunny suits (intel not easter) for under 15$!
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This store is crazy. It is even crazier than you think. If you ever wondered where you can get 1960s National Geographics, dozens of empty wooden yard spools, CandyLand game cards, thousands of tiny...
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
You never know. You might find something good; you might not. If you're a crafty, creative type, you should definitely go. Probably not a good place for the collector or antique buff unless you...
yelp.com - user review - 08/25/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
You know how 60s cuts are back? Well old patterns are like 50 cents there. When I'm making something new and retro I usually start by taking a look at the old patterns. Also, they have a TON of...
yelp.com - user review - 08/14/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you're looking for a specific yard of fabric, stamp, storage box, then this is NOT the place to go. You'd be better off at Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts. If you're the type of crafty person who doesn't...
yelp.com - user review - 06/08/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
"This place is amazing, anything you can imagine will show up here at one point or another. If you want a killer Halloween costume, a part for an art project or just want to take a look around this...
yelp.com - user review - 03/12/2006
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The East Bay Depot For Creative Re USe is one of the more centrally placed booths at our local, Berkeley, fourth of July celebration. This booth is always filled with children and adults all caught up in the...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/04/2005
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The East Bay Depot For Creative Re Use is has everything crafty and creative you'd need - but don't expect sterile packets of beads or uniform bottles of glue. The key word in its name is REUSE - so everything...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/20/2005
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I have never walked out of this place without bags of goodies. The prices are fair, most of the time. They have flex pricing, so unfortunately they are not always consistent. For the most part, they are always...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/18/2005
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The EBRDCR is one of the most fascinating stores I have ever been too. The selection is eclectic, wierd, and sometimes gross but it is all perfect for making bizarre works of art. All of there products are...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/10/2005
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The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse is probably the cheapest place to pick up art supplies--paper, bits of plastic, fabric, and odds and ends--for next to nothing. I once bought a piece of cardboard that was...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/05/2005
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