R.I.P. Gangsta/Ghetto Spur

Back when it was an independent franchise, a regular vendor had offered to replace a big shelf display. The only problem was what to do with the old shelving unit (it was huge). It sat outside the store unmolested for a few days until the owner put a cardboard sign on it that said simply "Please Save." It was gone by the next morning.

To be fair, it is coming back with a fried chicken place inside, so it will be more like HoD than it was... 

And it will be back (supposedly) Nov/Dec.

Muffin lady video please?

Don't forget the Casa de Roma / Mr. Lucky's / CW Chips.

The pawn shop on the next corner, upper side, has been closed for some time, too.

Oh, man, that was my gas station when I lived on Seventh Avenue East and Seventh Street. The National grocery store is long gone, too. I'm probably the only person alive who remembers it.

Two chocolate butter bars, please.

No need to pour your 40 just yet - it's being rebuilt.

"We are trying to relieve congestion," architects from Krech Ojard wrote to city planners when presenting a "statement of need" for the variance on behalf of Curtis.

By aligning the building to property edges, it eliminates pockets where criminal activity can occur, the statement read.

"I do not want to leave space behind the store that could be used by drug traffickers and drug users," the statement read. "I need to keep all activity in front of the store and in view of the police."

It's being rebuilt but it will never be the same.

I am so damn excited for the fried chicken.

Thank you for the Giljunko line. I always correct people who call it the "Ghetto Spur."

All Spurs are ghetto.

How could you forget the "BEST" hardware store in the city... Daugherty Hardware. I go way back and remember places like. Bridgemans, H.C. Dorf Grocery, Five & Dime Store European Bakery, Fox Hardware, just to name a few.

I remember going to the National grocery store, Laurie.  This would have been a much smaller version of me.  

I can't decide if I'd rather comment on the feeling of abandonment in the neighborhood with MCCU pulling out, or the collective chip on our shoulders about having the architect make a special statement about crime mitigation in their variance request.