Posted on 06/03/2013 2:23:56 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Otoh, I think L.L. Bean has actually benefited from online sales. I remember shopping at L.L. Bean when its brick and mortar incarnation was a collection of dimly lit barns off Route 1 in Freeport, ME. Now they have transformed downtown Freeport into a shopping mall and tourist Mecca, with parking "tastefully" off Main Street (Route 1), and a large and pleasant L.L. Bean downtown campus, surrounded by retail epigones and Starbucks up and down Main Street. I miss the "Down East" flavor of the old L.L. Bean, but if you are near Freeport, it's worth a visit. I've never seen anything like it. Some malls built from in green field sites try to imitate it, but really cannot capture the appeal of real downtown with real traffic. I'm talking to you, North Conway.
“We must protect the buggy whip industry at all costs!”
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Naw, I’m just saying the execs at Kodak had their heads up their collective patootie- I don’t want to save/kill anybody, that’s the market’s function
Richard Nixon grew up in such a home. Not sure where the kit was bought from, although I do recall it was from a mail order catalog. It looks OK, from the outside, but once you enter, it is astonishingly small.
http://rivieraview.blogspot.com/2010/01/richard-nixons-childhood-home.html
Best Freegards ;)
Why would anyone have wanted to stay indoors in a place like Yorba Linda, California? Especially growing up there 100 years ago?
“We must protect the buggy whip industry at all costs!”
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Naw, I’m just saying the execs at Kodak had their heads up their collective patootie- I don’t want to save/kill anybody, that’s the market’s function
sorry...forgot to post (Sarc)
300 days a year of sunshine, so that means 65 days of no sunshine ;) Also, once the sun goes down here, in Orange County, it gets into the 30’s - 50’s depending on time of year. Another thing about post sundown - the critters emerge. Lot of coyotes out there these days, I imagine they were more plentiful, back in the day, not to mention mountain lions. Best to be indoors :) Thanks!
Just didn’t want you to think I’m into ill-advised, unprincipled bailouts or anything
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