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Location: Scotland | According to a reliable souce, Mannys on 48th St in New York is due to close soon. Apparently it's down to real estate aquisition rather that economics, but hell, even though it's owned by SA, they've been there since the 1930's. Not good. |
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| That place is a real icon. Been there once real glad I walked in there now. Wish I spent more time looking around now, and talked with the owner. But when I was there it was busy and I like that memory of the place I guess.
I am very sad to hear we might loose this one. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I wonder if they'll have a blow out sale? I bought my first electric guitar there. You know, they are turning that whole part of manhattan into a tourist safe disney land. Gawd, I hate bloomberg and the real estate developers, they're trying to turn NYC into a playground for the rich, like a super wealthy hong kong, where people do nothing but consume and buy and consume and buy and consume and buy ... I hate to say it, but I'm glad those rapacious wall streeters got whacked, and not hard enough for me ... I am sad about main street though ...
... time marches on .... |
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Location: Scotland | It's not Bloomberg, in this case it's Rockefeller. They probably won't have a blow-out they'll just move it all to Sam Ash, who own Manny's. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The first thing I would buy would be all the autographed b/w promotion photos lining the walls. Priceless. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Heard about this 2 weeks ago.
Shame I won't get to go there, sure sounds like an interesting place.
Change is not necessarily progress.
AJ |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Good word,"rapacious". |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Songs that come to mind:
" ... another one bites the dust ..."
" ... see paradise, put up a parking lot." (Not that Manny's or that part of NYC is paradise, but it does have some cultural history. Americans tend to have a very short view of history.) |
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Manny's NYC Kaput
