Shades Of San Francisco: a reality check
In a shop so small I couldn’t stand behind the counter, a cute mirrored girl sells sunglasses on a San Francisco street with everything from live sex shows to Macy’s. All the big names in style and fashion were here: Fendi, Adidas, Chanel, Spy, Ray-Ban, Gucci, Coach, Versace, DNKY, Armani, Diesel, Calvin Klein, Serengeti, Gargoyles, Arnette, Lacoste, Harley Davidson, Nike, and tons more. These grasses are really inexpensive, too. For just $10, you could get any brand your heart desired. And the really cool part was that you buy any 2 pair and get a 3rd pair FREE! WOW! That’s 2 pair of Gucci and 1 Armani for (Gasp!) $20 and California sales tax!!!
There were some catches posted on the wall but they were obvious things like: No Discounts and No Refunds and No Exceptions. But SOSF DID offer Exchanges within 48 hours if you still had the receipt. Cool, huh? If the sunglasses broke in, say, 29 hours, you could run back to the store and get a brand new pair for just the price of a taxi ride or $25 parking (whichever is cheaper in SF). Nowhere else on the planet could you get a deal like this. Trust me.
A long time ago, I bought a pair of Ray-Bans for about $3 from a drug store. I was dizzy and nauseous before the sun went down that day. Something about the glass in them being made so badly they caused my 11-year old eyes to try to re-learn how to see. It would have cost me a lot more but I could have ridden my bike to Shades Of San Francisco and gotten some Gucci’s! They would have matched at least ONE of my Armani suits or Versace handbags I owned back then. (Don’t ask.) $3 for a crummy pair of knock-offs or $30 for THREE pair of brand new Gucci’s. I got sooooooooo ripped off when I was 11.
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Tama Blough
lol – and I have a bridge I can sell ya!
Lenny La Rue, IPA replied
I think I’m buying them a ‘toll at a time’ already. LOL! I got some good looks at the new and improved Bay Bridge’s progress; it looks very close to completion. But to need to give up a bridge without an offer from Sacramento in return. We’ll send you the entire contents of Capitol Park: building WITH dome, rose gardens, and all the tax increasing vermin dwelling in the structure. Deal? ;-)
sweetscent62
Hahahaha… that’s what i was thinking Tama : )...Knowing Lenny I’m guessing his tongue was planted firmly in his cheek when he typed that. I’m sure they were Findi,Adidos, Roy Bans..GUGCI, Vercace ,Donky, Armoni, Deesel, Calvin Klone etc ; ) !!
Damn Lenny how did she work in there? I’m claustrophobic just looking at the photograph! great capture, especially the cute girl in the mirror : )! Wenny xx
Lenny La Rue, IPA replied
I think I got my tongue stuck. My cheek seems to think that’s where it belongs. :-D Yeah, they actually might have been names but I sorta doubt it. They just as easily could have been on those huge container ships straight from the slave labour in any one of a dozen other countries, authentic names being the only reality. Let a single brand rep come by and that store would be closed as fast as it takes to pull down the rolling front door.
It was feeling her looking at me as I passed that caused me to turn back and find her looking at me thru the mirror. That shot was The Shot and I didn’t hesitate to take a dozen or so. :-)
mrscarlotta
I am with the girls above me lol, pretty girls can sell anything xxxxxxxxx
Lenny La Rue, IPA replied
Hahahaha! Here in Sacramento media market, we’ve finally started showing multiple sized women in dress and healthy food TV commercials. It has been a long time coming but the skinny only modeling days seem to be passing in THIS market.
However. the very next upload will offer the OTHER side of the ladies’ comments. Guys, let’s see how they handle it (besides with a forklift). ;-)
CLiPiCs
you sure they aren’t Ray Vans :-)
Love ‘N’ Laughter Kriss
Lenny La Rue, IPA replied
They could have been Ray Van cuz at that moment in time I was thinking, “Nevermore, nevermore!”
The Photograph...
Love it…What a Country!
Lenny La Rue, IPA replied
If it exists anywhere else on Earth, it was here before we chopped it down, hunted it into extinction, broke it off and “developed” it, buried it, exiled it, dug it all up, burned it, ate it, blew it up, poisoned it, exported it, moved it somewhere it either thrived or died, or just forgot it. In other words, What a humanized Country! That’s NOT all bad; don’t get me wrong. All the non-indigenous species I love to photograph would NEVER have been here if not for humanization! Pregnant Jack rabbits don’t just hang out with crazy humans and nibble sunflower seeds!!!
Tama Blough