Re: San Francisco Dinos

["Cunningham, Betty" <bcunning@nssi.com>]

        The Bone Room is on Solano Ave, and has modern mounted insects, 
     modern bone including human medical mounts, and modern reptile 
     castings (you know, the skins after they molt).  They also have live 
     crickets.  They also have a small catalogue for mail-order.  They 
     carry the T rex braincasts you see from time to time, as well as the 
     ever popular Velociraptor and Utahraptor cast claws.  Also mastadon 
     and mammoth parts (usually teeth).
       I go for the modern skulls from just about anywhere.  All 
     (apparently) legally imported.  He gets a lot of people down from UC 
     Berkeley's biology department shopping there.  One of the nicest 
     displays (not for sale) is the articulated skull and neck of an 
     ostrich, built into and off of a small cabinet.  They also carry wierd 
     educational toys for kids, and have the occasional articulated 
     skeleton mount of whatever.  The prices are reasonable (better than 
     Maxilla and Mandible, by far!)
     
     -Betty Cunningham
     illustrator, animator, and likes to collect dead things


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Subject: San Francisco Dinos
I went out to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. I went to see the 
T-Rex at Berkeley, but (dumb luck) it was the day that they were 
replacing the floor tile on the floor above and they had the thing 
covered up with plastic tarps, but it was still possible to see it. 
While I was in Berkely, I found an interesting little store called 
The Bone Room which has fossils (real ones and replicas). I bought a 
really good Charcarodontosaurus tooth for $105, and numerous other 
teeth and some castings (such as an Allosaurus toe claw). He still 
has some of those Charcaro teeth if anyone is interested. The phone 
number for the store is 1-510-526-5252.
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