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El Camino Real undergoes new transition Treasure Island Stamps and Coins doesn't look like a typical Palo Alto "destination." Crowds don't gather outside its doors to wait for the new iPhone or to feast on a sushi roll the size of a burrito. Yet as the only proprietor in the region of rare coins and stamps with more than 4,000 items amassed over the past half a century Rudy Schroeter's nondescript shop on El Camino Real, near Barron Avenue, draws philatelists and coin collectors from far and wide. With little foot traffic on this sleepy stretch of the city's main arterial spine, the shop relies on devoted customers who make the effort to seek and find it. The same can be said for Nouvelle Bridal Boutique, the business next door. Owner Ayda Mouradian says she routinely sees customers drive past her building and then circle back when they realize they've missed it. For all the talk in urban planning circles about El Camino as a "grand boulevard,"