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...popped out from under a truck and began to rummage through a large toolbox. I continued on to the second floor, where I met Sean Sullivan, the transfer station's manager. Wearing shiny black leather shoes, black dress pants, a tight pea green V-neck sweater and a gold chain, he introduced himself and offered me the tour that I had previously arranged...
...decided that I would make my way home as well. I stepped back out onto the deserted main street behind the transfer station and headed back towards the highway. The air was crisp and the sky was clear blue. Gazing off into the distance I noticed the gold peak of the Capital building sparkling like a beacon for my journey back to my red- bricked home...
...success didn't come easy. The stores languished until 1984, when Gold's efforts finally began to pay off, in large measure because of the introduction of more wholesome goods. "[Gold] took the shops away from their run-down, seedy image," notes Kim Rawlings, editor of Contours, a lingerie trade magazine. "They sell a lot more basic lingerie...
Transplanting a homegrown sex business onto distant shores will doubtless prove risky. Gold hopes to avoid offending local sensibilities by going the franchise route. "It helps us to have someone who understands the local culture," she says. So far, Ann Summers' Dublin store is the only one that has drawn opposition. Downtown merchants--saying a sex shop, no matter how posh, doesn't belong on a main shopping avenue--tried to get it moved to a side street. But the opposing retailers could not find any legal reason to keep the shop off O'Connell Street, and the company turned...
...Gold says she considers her shops fashionable boutiques and O'Connell Street the perfect location. Ireland has already become a proven market: Ann Summers holds 200 home parties a week there. Since the company does no advertising, Gold understands that a touch of controversy--so long as it's as relatively demure as the image she is trying to promote--can't hurt...