Because everyone needs 60,000+ sqft all to themselves... Allegheny Dist in Pittsburgh.. Yes, that's all three buildings.
It IS in Pittsburgh, but we can't buy this kind of gorgeousness in Austin. Not for under a mil and most have been mowed under to make way for ultra high-rises anyways. Buy this and create your own district. Though this is already in/at the edge of, a budding historic loft/warehouse dist.
You know there's something about this that speaks to you... admit it.
Deep down you know that if you see one more faux 50s mid century inspired cookie cutter-wanna be vintage building/sofa/vase/thingie, a little piece of you is going to die a small death. Mid Century was great and fresh and unique for about 15 years, but it's been done to death and co-opted by everyone and their mothers... for me, it's simply lost it's unique soul. It has officially sold out.
I want real and true and authentic.
A really stellar example of early mid mod will of course still stand out, but the shiny shiny over polished, sparkly, disco duckification of Mid Mod has really ruined it for me.
Currently I'm cleaving to the items that evoke meaningful work and production of useful things. Which is an American past, not present. towards the beginning of the end we were really drowning in objects of no substance or value. Pleather and high gloss candy colors just seems wrong and out-of-touch somehow.
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On another slightly un-related note... I was reading an article in the Times about American Apparel having to fire a third of their workforce because that portion could not prove legal status in the US. And I was reading how American Apparel felt targeted etc etc... And I'm sorry that these people lost their jobs, but at the same time, American Apparel has this whole "rah rah Made in America" promotional machine. So how about hiring out of work Legal Immigrants to make your stupid t-shirts? It's not a race thing, I'm sure that any company in America can find enough people of a particular ethnic group who are here legally who also need jobs. So hire them already. Part of American Apparel's promotional spin is that they pay fair (not under the table or sweatshop) wages, so again I don't see why they can't hire legal immigrants.
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Heard that the last of Scarboroghs Dept store is closing. Good for them! I wonder what it must be like to be born into a family business with (possibly) no hope of getting to do something else. Ever. Perhaps something you'd rather be doing.. A economic slowdown might be a great excuse to walk alway from something that just doesn't speak to you anymore.
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The weather is wonderfully cool today.
Bit-o-telephone-hilarity:
Our shop answering machine includes a wealth of info and also requests "... for additional information, leave a message and we will contact you shortly"..
For the last two days, one lady has called and as soon as the answering machine picks up, she presses one to bypass the recorded greeting, says "Hello? Hello?" and then hangs up. WTH?
In a weird way it makes me laugh. I don't always answer the machine since we do get our fair share of recordings and "do you have health insurance?" knock knock calls.
Newsflash: If you do not leave a message at any business, no one will call you back. We get 5 to 10 legitimate calls daily, I do not have the time or interest to look over the call log to figure out who did and did not leave a message.
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