The charm of the store is found not only in the stacks of cards and signed autographed and jerseys, much of that gathering dust, but in how it has managed to keep the doors open. The Lofaros have endured by changing along with the change. By embracing it. By becoming a place where, yes, the rare card hunter can still nab a Pete Rose rookie, but also a place where kids like Gil Gonzalez, who is 23 and studying nursing at Community College of Philadelphia, can take a train and a bus from school to meet his friends for weekly Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments.