ICH - End of An Era

The little coffee shop that could never really did. So many times I wanted it to be, but Abdo didn't have a Bohemian Barista's hands, his touch was more like that of a Digital Geppetto. He's now returned his shoppe on Parkside to a less complicated straight up computer repair joint. I can attest to his skills and good prices, and now his signage accurately reflects the work going on inside. I still miss the good bagels and coffee flavored coffee (he used an old-fashioned "restaurant-style" brewing technique) but I wish him luck in his more pure vision for repair work. Don't schlep to Tekserve; go to Abdo and spend your duckets locally. (I'm suddenly reminded of long departed blog Across the Park and a piece Alex did on Internet Coffee Shop many, many moons ago before ICH even opened. It's still filed away on a corner of the interweb, six years being an eternity in the blogosphere.)

Then there's this joint below, also on Parkside, which seems to be going out of business. I've never seen a Western Union Check Cashing Digicell EZ Pass store having a going-out-of-busines "fainal" sale before though. I had fun imagining them heavily discounting telegrams and EZ Passes, til I realized they also had a lot of what was probably quickly unloaded and turned-to-cash jewelry. So maybe they're trying to just as quickly sell it back. Hey, and if they make a little money on the deal, that would be a great business model. They could even hold it for awhile as collateral and sell it back to the very people who they got it from at a hefty mark-up, then sell it if need be when the original owners can't pay up. That's a million dollar idea, Q!

Oh, wait. That's a pawn shop.