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...stands, the crowd has an advantage: its view is not blocked by large 250-pound men aiming to squash the viewer to a pulp. The crowd can see the fakes and follow the action...
...while kicking a football in his barefeet in his yard, Restic went on to play for Leonard at St. Francis and later at Villanova as a receiver and a defensive back. He starred for both teams, earning the nickname "Razor" from his teammates for his 6-4 195 pound frame, lightning speed, and hard-hitting tendencies. Restic received his degree from Villanova...
...Vermonthippie's arrival on the scene. He offered to buyall the flowered shirts from the '60s they had.His request made co-owner Bruce Cohen see a futurefor the struggling rag warehouse. "This stuff isactually worth something," he remembers thinking,and the company shifted to the recycled clothingbusiness: Dollar-A-Pound opened in 1980, and whenthe printing company upstairs moved out six yearslater, The Garment District was established...
Today the company receives clothes from acrossthe country, grades, sorts, and then sells them.The best merchandise is steam-cleaned and soldupstairs in The Garment District; the lower-gradeitems are sold in the basement at Dollar-A-Pound,and the rest is shipped out to wiping clothmanufactures or other used clothing stores acrossthe country...
Downstairs, Dollar-A-Pound presents clothing ina much less-structured environment. The hours,too, are somewhat unorthodox: 5:45 a.m. to noon,on weekends only. There are no motorcycles ormonkeys here, but the prices are certainly muchlower. And a visitor can find anything here, aswell--as long as he or she doesn't mind digging,or having to wash that one-of-a-kind shirtdiscovered at the bottom...