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...first store opened, in Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on a storefront on Sunset Boulevard to unload the new merchandise and launched his company from the sleepy world of keyboards into the nascent West Coast rock scene. The Hollywood outlet soon gained a reputation as a place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members of Led Zeppelin...
...only new residents moving in just off the Yard. After years of yuppification in Harvard Square, a Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins combo store recently bucked the trend by returning to the corner of Bow Street and Mass. Ave. The old shop, known internationally as the storefront where Matt Damon asked if we “liked them apples,” will hopefully do a little to make the Square more student-friendly, battling the encroaching designer bars and diamond-studded watch shops catering to tourists and the middle-aged...
...some forms of ancient Japanese theater, a skinny red stripe on the stage is all that separates heaven from hell. For decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses...
That means a call from Au Bon Pain alerts a different agency than a call from a storefront a few feet down the block. And as a result, no centralized force exists to identify cases of homeless need and to ensure that individuals have access to the help they need...
...psychoactive ingredients show up on the Interior Ministry's list of banned ingestible substances. With long brown hair parted in the middle and a long purple skirt and tank top, Monica Secci, 31, one of PuraVida's owners, smiles and invites a guest to follow her into the nondescript storefront in Rome's residential Testaccio neighborhood. At the bottom of a narrow winding staircase is a well-lit store painted in psychedelic colors, the very antithesis of the grimy Amsterdam "head shops" that peddle marijuana, cheap drug paraphernalia, a few legal uppers and rock-star T shirts. Here the products...