Once confirmed, they will place your order in your vehicle's backseat or trunk. (On vehicle or trailer if a Bike, Boat or SUP**).A KTP team member will confirm purchase via printed or digital receipt and Valid ID shown through vehicle window.When you hear the greeting, dial EXT 330, to connect to the Curbside Pickup department. Park in one of the numbered parking spots near the marked pickup door in the back of our south parking lot. (Bikes, Boats & SUPS have a separate marked pickup area).Upon receipt of your order ready email confirmation drive to the Kittery Store between 10:00AM-6:00PM.If your product is located at our Kittery Store it will be ready within one hour of order confirmation, if not please allow 24 hours.*.We’ll let you know when your order is ready via email or phone.Shop Online – Select Contactless Curbside Pickup as your shipping method during checkout."I like to think of (myself) as uniquely enlightened into the absurdity of life," Pahlow says. And mostly, we're just happy to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Weird and funny, and we're not really sure why. McPhee is a lot like the rubber chickens that are sold there. "It really makes you feel small, doesn't it?" I asked Pahlow. They sell 'em like hotcakes.Īnd in the back of the store is the world's only rubber chicken museum, including the largest rubber chicken in the world! Archie's designs and manufactures their own. "If you don't think the rubber chicken is funny, then I don't want to know you," he said.Īhh yes, the rubber chicken. There is one item at Archie McPhees that Pahlow favors more than any other. "I have had an incredible rich and lucky life to indulged such a ridiculous predilection of absurdity and funny and goofy things year after year after year and make a living from it," Pahlow said. "We made this armadillo purse," Pahlow said. Pahlow, David Wahl and their band of eccentric curators of the ludicrous, the curious and the peculiar have designed more than 3,500 products and one of each of them is stored. He started it in 1983 and used to walk around with bags of strange toys selling them on the street. It's a really deep personal thing for me." "It's about finding some kind of comfort and pleasantness in an absurd and difficult world. "That is an interesting question," Pahlow replied. "What is this store really all about, anyway?" I tried.
What exactly do you ask a guy who gave yodeling pickles to the world? "I think I am a terribly humorous guy, but others find me almost abnormally introverted," Pahlow said. Touring Archie McPhee with the man who created it all is an experience. "I came in to buy a Ruth Bader Ginsburg air freshener for my car," said one customer. for your fingers, lobster claws, crazy hats - all kind, two-headed babies, punching nuns, and bacon flavored floss. "It's iconically Seattle to us.," said one woman.Īrchie McPhee is known for, among other things, its light-up unicorns, cat masks, little hands and feet. The man presiding over this theater of the absurd is Mark Pahlow, and the ideas that make it out of the brainstorming sessions end up in what has to be the oddest toy store in all the world. "Just so we are clear, this a regular pickle, but it is inhabited by a ghost," one said. It's a Claw-n ornament."Īt one point, the idea of a "haunted pickle" is thrown out. I don't know what it looks like, but a straw with a claw on it. What in the world is going on behind the scenes at the Seattle institution known as "Archie McPhee"? Well, sheer lunacy and joy.Ī brain-storming session at the company is anything but ordinary.
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