text: Having had a sad sad experience last summer I returned to Lakeside this summer after I was back in Wisconsin I drove their with a hope that it was a fluke when I visited a year ago That the wall oCascade might be back That the great couches and sales bins would return That it would have life againnnI was let down It is even more picked over and emptyseeming than it was a year ago The sales clerk was very polite and he showed me where certain new yarns were I browsed I thought wow that boat sure does do well to fill a pathetically empty shop and I left I cannot imagine a reason to return much They seem to no longer have the vast selection of needles they used to carry The different yarns they had that were hard to come by elsewhere are gone Now it is just a sad more open version of The Knitting Tree Clearly when it changed hands it just went to hellnnIts really too bad because this store was once quite great