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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:12 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Here it is. The anti establishment man! fight the powers! fight the goverment......

oh, I can get how much with a zoning change for my property?.....Ok, deal!!!!

follow the money....

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:34 am 
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Here it is. The anti establishment man! fight the powers! fight the goverment......

oh, I can get how much with a zoning change for my property?.....Ok, deal!!!!

follow the money....


:lol: Mark Thomas is a good guy. Great businessman. He started making shitty jewelry and little pipes in his basement when he was a teenager and he turned it into an empire.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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going to high school in the mid-late 90s (94-98) in elk grove, clark+belmont had this mythical quality about it as the place that kids went to get COOL shit...

...of course, i was more about hitting gramaphone/second-hand-tunes/dave's down the street and then maybe stopping by untitled for stupid raver pants, but hey the eclectics didnt make a song about clark and diversey being the center of the universe like they did clark and belmont, so c'est la vie.

i would love to find a copy of that song cuz i haven't heard it for years. there's a small chance that somewhere in some box is an old eclectics tape from the mid 90s bought at the fireside bowl, but now you can't even find any of their shit on youtube. at least i've still got the shirt, eh?

ah well, i'm sure this news will effect some people profoundly, especially as they gloss over the part that the guy's gonna reopen a new one in avondale.

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going to high school in the mid-late 90s (94-98) in elk grove, clark+belmont had this mythical quality about it as the place that kids went to get COOL shit...


Was the same when I was in HS, 88-92. Restock on Docs.


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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Sini, I thought you were of these kids that was born and raised in the city, went to Steinmetz or something?

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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bigfan wrote:
Here it is. The anti establishment man! fight the powers! fight the goverment......

oh, I can get how much with a zoning change for my property?.....Ok, deal!!!!

follow the money....


:lol: Mark Thomas is a good guy. Great businessman. He started making shitty jewelry and little pipes in his basement when he was a teenager and he turned it into an empire.


I don't think I ever met Mark, but I was buddies with his younger brother Troy growing up till about age 30 when he moved to Miami to open a food truck. Never heard a bad thing about Mark.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
bigfan wrote:
Here it is. The anti establishment man! fight the powers! fight the goverment......

oh, I can get how much with a zoning change for my property?.....Ok, deal!!!!

follow the money....


:lol: Mark Thomas is a good guy. Great businessman. He started making shitty jewelry and little pipes in his basement when he was a teenager and he turned it into an empire.


He always paid promptly when we did business together.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:22 pm 
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
bigfan wrote:
Here it is. The anti establishment man! fight the powers! fight the goverment......

oh, I can get how much with a zoning change for my property?.....Ok, deal!!!!

follow the money....


:lol: Mark Thomas is a good guy. Great businessman. He started making shitty jewelry and little pipes in his basement when he was a teenager and he turned it into an empire.


I have met him a number of times, good dude, but he is giving reasons of the construction is what has hurt him. The construction has been for about 45 days so far and actually gives his building a little more exposure.

fact is that his real estate became very valuable and he sold it. He took the money and ran, no need for the hardship story. He has a number of properties just west of the river, which when that gets developed he will make more money. He owns a 30,000 SF building that he rents outs to small potters, artists , etc. He didnt buy it just for the benefit of the art community, he expects the area to become valuable and then he sells. Just save me the sob story when you deposit the $2 mill in the account.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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I didn't get the impression that he was spinning a hardship tale about himself, but rather that he was lamenting closing down at the corner he helped make famous. Of course, I'm sure he has enough dough to keep going there if he really wanted to, but you can't blame the guy for cashing out when the cashing is good. He isn't a kid anymore either.

One more thing about Mark, you want to talk about punching above your weight class, this guy's wife is a babe. I think he would tell you himself it's like beauty and the beast.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
you want to talk about punching above your weight class, this guy's wife is a babe.

I understand the meaning, but that is really an odd way to put that :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
you want to talk about punching above your weight class, this guy's wife is a babe.

I understand the meaning, but that is really an odd way to put that :lol:


He outkicked his coverage.

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 Post subject: Re: The Alley
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Chus wrote:
spanky wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
you want to talk about punching above your weight class, this guy's wife is a babe.

I understand the meaning, but that is really an odd way to put that :lol:


He outkicked his coverage.

Sarah Spain lost her mind on twitter today because Will Muschamp dared to say essentially the same thing at his intro press conference at South Carolina today.

Saying "outkicked his coverage" is a guy's way of making fun of himself and yet complimenting his wife. She turned it into a whole ordeal.... :roll:

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