I went to Costco the other day with a friend; I’d found myself there previously, once or twice, in similar circumstances. There was something about the place beyond the obvious that had kept me away. The obvious being, first, that it has an almost religious-military bent about requiring “membership,” and one isn’t even allowed to [...]
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Is the Gastown business model failing? L / 3 = s (Monthly lease divided by three equals the retail price of a shirt) Notice also how they don’t actually announce they’ve closed? I’ve noted this trend before. They didn’t fail: they are “100+ stores and counting” and “growing louder.”
I’ve noticed recently a few businesses around Gastown have closed and have posted notices stating that they are “under renovation,” suggesting a future reopening, when it seems that this is not the full truth. This happened with the Subway shop on Water Street: for ages there was a sign indicating the location would reopen, but [...]
I walk by this sign a couple of times a day, and cringe every time.
Handy icon reminding me, when my umbrella is closed, what it looks like when open, so I know that this is the device to take with me in case of rain:
Taken from my favourite bench, 8:43pm tonight.
When I moved into the Gastown area in February, I was really happy to discover JJ Bean in the Woodwards building. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I’m a vegan, and they had two kinds of vegan muffins. It’s often slim pickings in this respect in Vancouver, so I made a habit of stopping by [...]
I bought these amazing photos for my new place: Yaletown Curve Pipe Line See Tamara Leigh Photography.
I’ve noticed several instances in Vancouver recently of whiteboards and other makeshift signs erected (“plonked” might be a better term) at new facilities in an obvious effort to compensate for poor design. One example is the new extension to the CBC building on Georgia Street: a hand-written sign pointed people to the main entrance, which [...]
Sharp. Rich. North. See Spirit Wrestler Gallery; Robert Davidson.
