Wednesday, December 10, 2014

B&N to Banana

The original Barnes & Noble flagship store on 5th Avenue closed this past January. It had been there since 1932.

The Banana Republic that is taking its place has a message for us: "Good things are worth the wait."

4 comments:

  1. 32 years ago, I had my first job at 111 5th Avenue. How wonderful the neighborhood was back then with B&N and Shackmans and the Coffee Shop that actually was a coffee shop with the BEST rench fries. I had escaped suburbia. Now that neighborhood resembles the mall in the suburbs from which I escaped.

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  2. "The horror, the horror."

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  3. I happened to stumble onto the ghastly scene in January of this year - a most depressing interval. I did have my camera and captured some of the undoing. Unthinkable, really, and yet here we are.

    http://steeber.com/News/Barnes&NoblePlaqueRemoval-sm.jpg

    http://steeber.com/News/Barnes&NobleClosed-sm.jpg

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  4. The last book I purchased there was the Titanic tale, "A Night To Remember." How appropriate a title.

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