Friday, May 3, 2019

Egads! 7th Street Village Farm morphs into an E Smoke shop



Derek Berg was present yesterday morning for the ceremonial swapping of the awning on the southwest corner of First Avenue and Seventh Street ... where the 7th Street Village Farm became...



... an omnipresent E Smoke & Convenience shop, selling things like (just one of everything?) Beverage, Cigar and Snack, per the awning. (Does the AP Stylebook say to use e-smoke and not e smoke?)

The corner space had been for rent... and there was even an awning switcheroo back in August 2017.

Anyway, as noted before, this space has been some kind of market/deli for years now...


[Photo from 1979 by Michael Sean Edwards]

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bleeding money until the weed legalization comes through...

Anonymous said...

FRUIT EXCHANGE! "i'll swap you these grapes for that melon!"

Anonymous said...

Strunk and White prefer the hyphen.

noble neolani said...

Vaping is another tragedy promoted with shining advertisements "look all the cool kids are doing it" from big tobacco. Stay away, you will get hook due the high levels of nicotine and will be throwing good money at a bad habit.

Carol from East 5th Street said...

Another Vape Shop. Just what we need.

Anonymous said...

Amazing that kids can't figure out how vaping is just "cool" smoking - but equally addictive, and DAMN EXPENSIVE!

For all the millennials who say they can't pay their student loans, or have to share an apartment, or can't save to buy a place, I'd say if you vape, you are literally burning up your finances.

Anonymous said...

I would have gone with a Gadzooks there Grieve, but that's just me.

EV Grieve said...

😅😅

XTC said...

That has to be one of the most obnoxious type styles and signage I've ever scene.

Anonymous said...

I love the old photograph. I can only imagine what this neighborhood was like then.

Anonymous said...

Does anybody remember... produce?