Henry Santoro reports that Gerald "Jerry Ellis" Elovitz, the co-founder of the Building 19 chain, is dead at 90.
Building 19 Facebook page - Has images from the famous circulars and other good stuff, free.
Some more images from Building 19 circulars.
Sunday in Norwood.
One of Building 19's largest unsecured creditors is the town of Norwood, owed $306,651 in back taxes, according to a listing filed by the company in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston on Friday.
The company, which blames competition from the Internet, actually owes New Bedford even more - some $353,000.
First Anthony's Pier 4, then the Hilltop, now Building 19. Chapter 11 Cases reports the iconic chain for cheap New Englanders has filed for Chapter 11 - and plans to liquidate, rather than just reorganize:
If you saw one of those Building 19 circulars advertising the sale of some salvaged Swarovski crystal, would you assume Swarovski was going downmarket?
A federal appeals court ruled today that the maker of expensive crystal is going to have to do a better job proving such an ad would confuse consumers if it wants to win a lawsuit seeking to bar Building 19 from mentioning its name at all as it tries to unload $500,000 worth of Swarovski goods salvaged from a warehouse hit by a tornado.
Notice anything a little odd about their price for 3x5 rugs?
Shane Curcuru snapped this shot at the Burlington store.
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Some Assembly Required explains why, for him, Building 19 is a sensation best savored only on rare occasions.
Jerry Ellis himself is apologizing for advertising wife beaters.
Daniel in Brookline, though, doesn't understand what all the fuss is about, since the undershirts are often called wife beaters:
... Sheesh. Get a life, people.
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