The Rock Shop
Lone Pine, CA – Lone Pine Rocks and Gifts is known locally simply as “The Rock Shop.” And like the geological wonders it sells and displays, the store is no stranger to transformation.
It began as an auto repair garage owned by Leo and Lorene Jones in the early ’60s. Leo sectioned off part of his auto repair garage and opened Lorene’s Rock and Gift Shop. Later on their son Bud and his wife Nell bought it from them.
After going through several owners over the years, Nancy Spence and her husband, Jim, bought the store in 1998 and made many improvements to it. Eventually the Spences decided to move from Lone Pine to Arizona, but found it difficult to run the shop from so far away. They asked Nancy’s sister, Margaret Warner, and her husband, Donald, if they would consider buying it. It was an easy sales pitch to Margaret who had already been helping out her sister with the store. She found the transition quite easy and she struck a deal with her husband that, if he would do the rocks, she would do the gifts.
