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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 19, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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The founder of Sports Chalet, Norbert Olberz died Friday. He founded one of the larger sporting goods chains in So Cal that carried mountaineering & rock climbing gear. The La Canada store was its flagship store & set the bar pretty high for other retailers to follow suit.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-norbert-olberz-20110719,0,6176565.story
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Jul 19, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
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Slave labor for Norbert in the Mountain Shop - Store #37
Visalia (2003-2005)
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jul 19, 2011 - 06:45pm PT
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Store #14 oxnard! 96-98'
RIP norbert.
the chalet was such a great thing.
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rincon
Trad climber
SoCal
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Jul 19, 2011 - 07:19pm PT
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I used to get all my stuff at Sport Chalet or REI, back before the days of online shopping. They had a pretty good climbing dept...I bought my FISH portaledge from the La Canada store in 1994. RIP Norbert.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jul 19, 2011 - 07:23pm PT
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Visitor to the, I think, Long Beach store on many occasions.
Long live the Sport Chalet climbing comp!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 19, 2011 - 07:40pm PT
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Years ago I bought a small amount of their stock. Later that year in with the annual report was a 20% off certificate good for any one trip to the store.
I got one every year since except for once and by now have recovered the cost of the stock and more on the discounts.
I need to make my annual pilgrimage to La Canada here pretty soon.
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JMC
climber
oilfields of Sumatra
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Jul 19, 2011 - 07:46pm PT
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RIP Norbert. Store 1 & 2 mountain shop & ski shop serf, 1993 ~ 2002 (2003?). Made a lot of good friends from/through there, had a lot of fun, got away with a ton of sh!t that I dont think you can do anymore.
The La Canada stores at that time were well-worn, almost homely. Too buffed and polished for my tastes now (I think the heyday for the climbing shop ended in ~ 1996, and for ski shop in ~ 2006.)
On a related, more tragic note, fellow Chalet alumnus Nicole Anderson was killed in a plane crash last week. RIP Nicole. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/07/two-police-officers-killed-in-plane-crash-mourned.html
-John
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jul 19, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
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Senior Buyer at Sport Chalet Corporate in LaCanada.
Norbert was always perfectly fair to me and one of the best if
not the best employer I have ever had.
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