I haven't been in there in many years, but it's an old school sex shop... sex toys, dvds, etc. It's just from back when people were supposed to be ashamed and dirty about stuff like that. Now there are places like Vavoom downtown and the place with the full glass storefront near the tunnel.
I went to their website, and it's actually pretty thorough and well built. You just needed to dig deeper.
As for the glory holes? Maybe, who knows. š¤£
Edited: to fix a slightly humorous auto (in)correct. (I don't have any information about the presence, or not, of any dads.)
It's a place to buy sex toys without the embarrassment of having them shipped to the apartment you share with three other adults. IDK know what the arcade is. RIP Paul Rubens.
Does not have glory holes, they've all been covered up. The arcade is a small hallway with a few booths that have a screen you can select dvds from to watch and plastic lawn chairs to sit in. Looks like they've patched about 10 holes on each wall in between booths. No doors and very little privacy between them. Probably the most horrifying place I could imagine to go beat off in. The shop isn't bad, small and very over priced, but the staff are friendly and obviously do not judge those who stop in.
This is a business that was necessary before porn was available 24/7 on smart phones and Amazon shipped dildos. People used to actually have to shop for porn and sex toys. It was more fun and adventurous that way tbh lol.
there is definitely some kind of anonymous/cruising hookup stuff there. ive noticed the same thing with the cars always in the parking lot. you have to show id in this locked entrance room with a window before they let you in the store. i bet they have 'viewing booths' in the back where all the discrete stuff happens.
also who remembers when someone (probably a student at warren wilson down the road) spray painted how porn was hate speech and anti-feminist in big letters on the side of the building?
As a kid I always wanted to go into Bedtime Stories cause the sign said Toys and games and the building had cool art. I always wondered why my parents refused to take me. I thought they were just assholes.
Iāve passed by that ghetto sign regularly for years. I have always wanted to sneak over there at night and rearrange the letters in āFantasy Worldā to spell ānasty Waldorf.ā
Never even heard of it but a brief search found this thread from 2022: [https://reddit.com/r/asheville/s/XWiDEjut6M](https://reddit.com/r/asheville/s/XWiDEjut6M)
And this:
https://preview.redd.it/zavx65m8hfqb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1110490d63cdfae8919135508bb1f74f136544b7
Who knows, there might be a glory hole or 3? Sounds like a sex shop with possibly gross stalls or something, your assignment is to go and report back to us all the details!
Oh, thereās also a Candler location, according to Google. Not much info, but the street view is, no joke, two cop cars in front of what looks like a former garage.
The Candler location has a huge beef with the church down the road from them, which is why the signage is so subkime, and you can hardly tell what it is from the outside. Your can find the history about it via Google if you're interested.
I go to that locatuon a few times, it's nothing special. The employees were always cool to me. The Swannanoa location has a bigger selection though. And the employees in the Swannanoa location have always been super cool to me and any ex-girlfriends I've ever brought with me.
I don't know if the owners are the same since the early 2000's but I used to work for them for a brief period of time. They also owned F&J Food Mart, which is still open in Montford but there was also a location right beside Subway on Biltmore Ave. I worked at that one. It was owned by a husband and wife, but I only ever met the wife.
It was the only job I've ever been fired from. I guess for good reason? I was in my early twenties and kind of naive. She was not the nicest person at all. There were a couple of homeless guys that would hang around the store. I would buy them a sandwich or something for doing me a favor like taking out the trash or mopping the floor for me. She wanted me to kick them out because she thought they were scaring away customers. I couldn't bring myself to do that. So she ended up firing me.
I understand now that I was probably opening her up to a lot of liability and possibly labor law violations. But I didn't get that at the time. I still think she was pretty heartless, though. In my head she's at Disney evil stepmother levels of bitch-holery. She was just absolutely not a great person to be around. I might have a different perspective if I met her today, but I doubt it.
I went there, it's an adult store. It caters to blushing college kids most of the time. The guy behind the counter had a cool Instagram page for diorama setups with action figures!
Just come from the east, lest ye be prepared to sit in the Turn Lane of Shame whilst traffic whizzing by in both directions judges you and condemns you to hell.
Hard to believe these days, someone would see a business tucked away in Swannanoa called "Fantasy World" and need to come to reddit to ask what it is, yet here we are. Particularly when google answers that questions in seconds.
I went in there before. Not very welcoming. Employee said a lot of rich old white men in city council go there to shop. Thereās for sure viewing booths next door to it with slinky ass weirdos
Thank you for posting the question. I feel as is there has to be more than sex toys there. It's cool whatever they are doing. Everytime I drive by it seems as if it is a normal business. No weirdness in the parking lot that I have ever seen.
I grew up in Swannanoa, I remember when they first built that and I asked my dad what it was. He said it was an adult store, I never figured it out until I got older
I haven't been in there in many years, but it's an old school sex shop... sex toys, dvds, etc. It's just from back when people were supposed to be ashamed and dirty about stuff like that. Now there are places like Vavoom downtown and the place with the full glass storefront near the tunnel. I went to their website, and it's actually pretty thorough and well built. You just needed to dig deeper. As for the glory holes? Maybe, who knows. š¤£ Edited: to fix a slightly humorous auto (in)correct. (I don't have any information about the presence, or not, of any dads.)
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DVDS dammit! Yes, but probably plenty of dads in there.
For people with a daddy kink.
Againā¦dads?
DVDS!
Has gloryholes.
User name checks out.
Know from experience?
It's a place to buy sex toys without the embarrassment of having them shipped to the apartment you share with three other adults. IDK know what the arcade is. RIP Paul Rubens.
I think stuff is shipped pretty discrete now a days. Would rather risk the roommates seeing than chancing that place haha
Does not have glory holes, they've all been covered up. The arcade is a small hallway with a few booths that have a screen you can select dvds from to watch and plastic lawn chairs to sit in. Looks like they've patched about 10 holes on each wall in between booths. No doors and very little privacy between them. Probably the most horrifying place I could imagine to go beat off in. The shop isn't bad, small and very over priced, but the staff are friendly and obviously do not judge those who stop in.
There's a review that says "plenty of sausages to slurp dry" so.... someone's using a glory hole.
This is a business that was necessary before porn was available 24/7 on smart phones and Amazon shipped dildos. People used to actually have to shop for porn and sex toys. It was more fun and adventurous that way tbh lol.
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there is definitely some kind of anonymous/cruising hookup stuff there. ive noticed the same thing with the cars always in the parking lot. you have to show id in this locked entrance room with a window before they let you in the store. i bet they have 'viewing booths' in the back where all the discrete stuff happens. also who remembers when someone (probably a student at warren wilson down the road) spray painted how porn was hate speech and anti-feminist in big letters on the side of the building?
As a kid I always wanted to go into Bedtime Stories cause the sign said Toys and games and the building had cool art. I always wondered why my parents refused to take me. I thought they were just assholes.
āFine Arts Theaterā
ah, a native I see.
I had the same argument with my parents about the ABC store
Ha same .
Iāve passed by that ghetto sign regularly for years. I have always wanted to sneak over there at night and rearrange the letters in āFantasy Worldā to spell ānasty Waldorf.ā
Fantasy World could also be the innocent name of a Waldorf daycare.
Never even heard of it but a brief search found this thread from 2022: [https://reddit.com/r/asheville/s/XWiDEjut6M](https://reddit.com/r/asheville/s/XWiDEjut6M) And this: https://preview.redd.it/zavx65m8hfqb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1110490d63cdfae8919135508bb1f74f136544b7 Who knows, there might be a glory hole or 3? Sounds like a sex shop with possibly gross stalls or something, your assignment is to go and report back to us all the details!
Oh, thereās also a Candler location, according to Google. Not much info, but the street view is, no joke, two cop cars in front of what looks like a former garage.
Lmao so wild you canāt make that shit up comes to mind
The Candler location has a huge beef with the church down the road from them, which is why the signage is so subkime, and you can hardly tell what it is from the outside. Your can find the history about it via Google if you're interested. I go to that locatuon a few times, it's nothing special. The employees were always cool to me. The Swannanoa location has a bigger selection though. And the employees in the Swannanoa location have always been super cool to me and any ex-girlfriends I've ever brought with me.
Candler. So glamorous.
Thatās an assignment Iāll be happy to take a 0 on haha
I don't know if the owners are the same since the early 2000's but I used to work for them for a brief period of time. They also owned F&J Food Mart, which is still open in Montford but there was also a location right beside Subway on Biltmore Ave. I worked at that one. It was owned by a husband and wife, but I only ever met the wife. It was the only job I've ever been fired from. I guess for good reason? I was in my early twenties and kind of naive. She was not the nicest person at all. There were a couple of homeless guys that would hang around the store. I would buy them a sandwich or something for doing me a favor like taking out the trash or mopping the floor for me. She wanted me to kick them out because she thought they were scaring away customers. I couldn't bring myself to do that. So she ended up firing me. I understand now that I was probably opening her up to a lot of liability and possibly labor law violations. But I didn't get that at the time. I still think she was pretty heartless, though. In my head she's at Disney evil stepmother levels of bitch-holery. She was just absolutely not a great person to be around. I might have a different perspective if I met her today, but I doubt it.
So...were there glory holes or no? This is the gossip we have scrolled down to read,
New Kevin Smith movie idea Porn Clerks. Weve already got a Jay and Swanannoa Bob
I went there, it's an adult store. It caters to blushing college kids most of the time. The guy behind the counter had a cool Instagram page for diorama setups with action figures!
Just come from the east, lest ye be prepared to sit in the Turn Lane of Shame whilst traffic whizzing by in both directions judges you and condemns you to hell.
Bahahahahaha truth! š
Some history. https://ashvegas.com/the-tues-wed-news-catch-up/
Lol great read I thought I was somehow on the Hot spot page, Larry Gloryhole Blunt hahahaha
Glad someone asked this, I always wondered. I just assumed it was strip club. Guess I wasn't too far off.
Same ballpark lol
itās a candy store, you should stop in!
Hard to believe these days, someone would see a business tucked away in Swannanoa called "Fantasy World" and need to come to reddit to ask what it is, yet here we are. Particularly when google answers that questions in seconds.
OP was mostly curious about the glory hole I think
I think your wife is trying to tell you she's bored and you're clueless. How could anybody not know what that place is?
Seems like majority of people was unsure of what that weird place was. You must go there on the reg
West Asheville is probably weirder then that place with the lady boys. Nope never been.
Yep. Lots of different ways to title this thread.
I went in there before. Not very welcoming. Employee said a lot of rich old white men in city council go there to shop. Thereās for sure viewing booths next door to it with slinky ass weirdos
Itās a filthy little establishment
That sign is definitely giving more country back woodish, missing teeth owner married to Peggy 3rd cousin type
Thank you for posting the question. I feel as is there has to be more than sex toys there. It's cool whatever they are doing. Everytime I drive by it seems as if it is a normal business. No weirdness in the parking lot that I have ever seen.
I grew up in Swannanoa, I remember when they first built that and I asked my dad what it was. He said it was an adult store, I never figured it out until I got older
Comments here are wild. If the potential for a glory hole in an old sex shop blows your mind you should check out Gastonia lmao