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Home Depot opens first store in Manhattan
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^
| 9.10.04
| RENÉE DEGROSS
Posted on 09/10/2004 8:19:38 PM PDT by mhking
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:19:38 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:20:02 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
Home Depot is a man's store. What would all those Metrosexuals do with a drill?
To: mhking
The "Americanization" of Manhattan continues. ;-( Other freepers will mock me, but one of the great things about New York is that it wasn't "McWorld" dominated by chain stores. Those of us who live in small apartments LIKE the little hardware stores.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:22:17 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(You've gotta love living, because dying's such a pain in the a-s! --- FA Sinatra)
To: slowhand520
What would all those Metrosexuals do with a drill?You mean guys like these?
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:22:38 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: slowhand520
The Home Depots in Miami were major cruising centers for homosexuals. I kid you not.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:22:56 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(You've gotta love living, because dying's such a pain in the a-s! --- FA Sinatra)
To: mhking
Do people in Manhattan actually do home repairs themselves?
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:23:54 PM PDT
by
Sue Bob
To: Clemenza
Are you serious? I have never noticed anything of the sort. Then again, I've only had to go to Home Depot a handful of times in the past couple of years.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:26:29 PM PDT
by
Green Knight
(Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
To: mhking
You also won't find cement, lumber or drywall, which can be special-ordered. I prefer Lowe's. But both the Home Depot in Hollywood and the Lowe's have full lumberyards. And the Home Depot is open 21 hours a day.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:28:40 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
("F" Stands for FLIP-FLOP ...)
To: mhking
Want to know what I find really FUNNY about all this?
The people who are looking around POSH Home Depot, and don't own cars (because they either can't drive, or couldn't in NYC), are looking down their noses at the people who shop in ORDINARY Home Depot, who own houses with a square footage bigger than their whole apartment building...and have a truck that's even bigger! *LOL*
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:29:07 PM PDT
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: mhking
Home Depot opened the N.Y. store so Tony Stewart would be near his Sponser when he comes to N.Y. to collect his NEXTEL CUP championship trophy this winter. GO TONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
To: slowhand520
Hey Now! This female person knows her way around the local home depot just fine:)So far I've talked myself out of a compressor and nail gun...
To: mhking
about 15 shoppers105,000-square-foot store
They're going to need a lot more than 15 people to fill up that store.
I see why Home Depot is trying to expand there -- dollars, of course -- but the cognitive dissonance of an upscale Home Depot selling $8,000 rugs in Manhattan is brain-shattering.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:50:50 PM PDT
by
nsc68
To: Happygal
The people who are looking around POSH Home Depot, and don't own cars (because they either can't drive, or couldn't in NYC), are looking down their noses at the people who shop in ORDINARY Home Depot... Who was looking down their noses? I didn't see any of that in the article.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:53:07 PM PDT
by
saquin
To: mhking
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:54:23 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(What freakin' frequency are you on, Kenneth...NPR?)
To: mhking
I just noticed the store last night, I think it already was open - at least it looked like it was as I drove by. Let me tell you, for things like window blinds and simple things like screws and stuff, that place is very welcome - and don't buy into the notion that everyone in the city is a metrosexual, that's a fallacy. You can do some pretty serious home repair in apartments.
Going to pay a visit tomorrow, it looked more like a Bed Bath & Beyond from the street, but we'll see.
To: slowhand520
Not! I know my way around Lowes and Home Depot quite thoroughly, thanks. Latest buy was a compound miter saw with a laser guide.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:56:01 PM PDT
by
T Minus Four
(I'm T Minus Four, and I approved this post.)
To: saquin
I guess I read it into the sentence about DIY'rs parked with the SUV's in the parking lot.
And, let's face it...that is the anthithesis to urban living in the Upper West Side, eh?
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:58:07 PM PDT
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: WorkingClassFilth
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posted on
09/10/2004 9:06:09 PM PDT
by
kenth
To: slowhand520
I'd wager that you do not **really** want to know the answer to that Q.
:^)
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posted on
09/10/2004 9:08:26 PM PDT
by
SAJ
(Wait until Tuesday, then write OJX calls, 100 and 105 calls. Write SFV 7700 puts on any decent dip.)
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