Showing posts with label charming Old World neighborhoods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charming Old World neighborhoods. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2007

New Albany welcomes another retailer to downtown.

I saw the (illegal) sign on Spring Street last Thursday, and did a double take. A garage sale every day of the week? Is that actually possible?


It's always important to make customers feel welcome: "Who wants to be in jail?"

On Saturday morning, the trinkets were spread across the long-vacant lot pictured below, and I suppose that's why "garage sale" seems semantically out of place. Although it's a "sale," there isn't exactly a "garage" from which to conduct it, and anyway, if a "garage sale" is every day, doesn't it cease being a "garage sale" and start being a "flea market"?

Furthermore, is trashiness a New Albanian birthright? Or, is it just a case of plain folks getting by? And if one undertakes to discuss aesthetics, does it automatically imply deadly "elitism"?

Wonder if they carry any used spark plugs?



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