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By adamg on Sat, 01/30/2016 - 4:19pm
Craig Caplan is struck by the discordancy of a Downtown Crossing store opening and closing at the same time.
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I didn't check the Facebook permissions on that. It's basically just a larger, uncropped version of the same photo.
Also discordant: the store signs
They didn't bother taking down the old SHERMAN'S LUGGAGE sign before opening the new shop in its place.
This is a common trick with Antique/Rug stores.....
Having a liquidation sale the same month you open your store.
All a huge scam, and many of the companies just change names and move rugs around to different stores for some reason. There must be some sort of sales strategy somewhere in there.
Sherman's
"There must be some sort of sales strategy somewhere in there."
Sherman's is an indestructible shape shifter. Remember when they were located where the now defunct City Sports was on Bromfield Street, and they sold all kinds of appliances and things? They claimed they were going out of business, but were suddenly resurrected across the street as a luggage store. And, if I recall, they were somewhere right in that area even before the City Sports location and also "went out of business" for a while.
Sherman's is long gone
Sherman's went out of business permanently years ago when the owner who had moved across the street into the building that he owned, sold the building and retired,
The first thing anyone who moved into that space on Bromfield should have done was remove the old ugly sign and put up their own. That is nuts that that the sign is still there after all these years.
Also the antique store IS going out of business. It just opened a few months ago thus the Grand Opening sale sign is still there. Which is also nuts.
Pop up store?
Maybe the antique store was one of those storefront "pop up" stores that come and go seasonally?
Open Letter
Perhaps they are the author of this recent open letter?
This does happen, but I think
This does happen, but I think this place just went under. The doorway is a bedroom/toilet for the homeless every night. Can't imagine why no one wanted to buy overpriced yard sale junk there...
Fine Italian Clothing store next door will soon have the same 2 signs up.
what?
The place isn't opened at night when the homeless sleep in the doorway is it?
Homeless sleep in almost every doorway at night. They sleep in Macy's doorway.
not surprised
They were only open for a few months and I don't think it's a ploy--they'll really go out of business and lose money. I don't know how those new/used/antique/junk stores on Bromfield St stay in business. It's like a constant yard sale.
People shooting up in the doorways doesn't help. Every day from 5 pm to 8 am the street is occupied by drug addicts that get high, nod off, then defecate where they sleep. The smell every morning is horrendous. It's a huge hurdle for shops like this that rely on tourists.
Bromfield Street
There was a time Bromfield Street had a very cool, Greenwich Village type feel with interesting bookstores (back when there were bookstores) and the like. Now it's just cheesy nail salons and things like that (sorry Silvertone). Part of the downfall of Bromfield Street was when Suffolk built that giant building on the corner of Tremont and Bromfield. It was supposed to help resurrect Tremont Street, which I'm not sure it did. But it certainly didn't do a thing for Bromfield, a good chunk of which is now just a blank wall of that building.
Interesting Book Stores? When?
Bromfield has my favorite Go to Coffee place, Boston Brewin Coffee. Go there.
It also has Pedro's Taco's, Silvertone, One Gig Clothing, Bromfield Pen shop, Two good nail salons, Sidebar, Bromfield Camera, Clothing from Italy, Blank Label men's suits, Bay State Coin, and Colonial Trading co.
It also has a lot of available space. City Sports, Rico's, City Golf, The FroYo place, The Old City Sports, and the Antique Store are all out of Business.
As far as a cool Greenwich Village feel, I've been in DTX since 1991 and don't recall that. As far as Suffolk law school ruining it, naah.
DTX isn't the new coming of Rodeo Drive that the realtors keep telling us it is. Still a long way to go. I wish it was more like the Village.
And don't forget
My favorite: Bromfield Watch Hospital. My go-to place (and everyone else's, especially at lunchtime) for watch battery replacement.
I guess I''m showing my age...
But I was going back a little further than 1991. The bookstores were there in the 70s. The groundbreaking Gay Community news (GCN) had it's offices there. Further back than that in the 60s there was a coffeehouse there with musicians at night, but those were everywhere then.
Joke Shop
At one point I think one of the classic joke shops was on Bromfield Street also. There was definitely one on West Street.
Joke Shop Correction
The joke shop wasn't on West Street, it was one street over on Temple Place. I do think there was one on Bromfield though.