Signs Of The Times?

Posted on September 30th, 2008 2:18pm by Glenn Hunter
Filed under Business, Local News

This corner of Greenville Avenue and Milton Street, which once boasted The Fare strip club, is now home to a brand-spanking new branch of … Washington Mutual! Er, wait a sec; WaMu was seized by the feds last week–the biggest bank failure in U.S. history–and then taken over by JPMorgan Chase. One possible reason: WaMu specialized in something called “option adjustable-rate mortgages,” which let borrowers hold off making payments on a loan’s interest and principle principal. That’s a pawn shop behind the new bank, by the way. Insert your joke here.

22 comments

  1. http://gawker.com/5056697/poetic-signage

    @ 2:22 pm on September 30, 2008

  2. It’s a darn good pawn shop too…SMU kids pawn GOOD stuff…

    @ 2:22 pm on September 30, 2008

  3. Hopefully, The Fare will move in there and they can keep the ChaWaMu ATM.

    @ 2:29 pm on September 30, 2008

  4. Half a block down I noticed yesterday that there is a coming soon banner in the shopping center at University/Greenville anchored by the Park-It Market Keg-O-Rama. It reads “KNOCKOUTS: Hair Cuts For Men”

    I thought that was a King of the Hill spoof. There really are “Knockouts” hair cut places?

    @ 2:30 pm on September 30, 2008

  5. I heard the ATM there only distributes $1 bills…

    @ 2:31 pm on September 30, 2008

  6. Just spent an enjoyable weekend at ACL in Zilker Park, where one of the stages was ironically sponsored by WaMu. Not the greatest timing on either part.
    WaMu employees happily handed out WaMu wristbands all weekend long, but I’m sure they were worried about their post-ACL job status.

    @ 2:35 pm on September 30, 2008

  7. Wamu Bam Thank You Ma’am.

    @ 2:41 pm on September 30, 2008

  8. @Bill — Yes, there are Knockouts haircutting establishments. They term themselves unofficially as “the Hooters of Haircutting.”

    @ 2:43 pm on September 30, 2008

  9. Glenn-
    The word you were looking for was not principle, but principal, as in “a capital sum, as distinguished from interest or profit.”

    @ 3:35 pm on September 30, 2008

  10. Thanks, REA. Guess I should have paid closer attention to my sixth-grade teacher (he later became the school’s principle).

    @ 3:42 pm on September 30, 2008

  11. @ Dave Moore

    There’s also a Hooters of coffee…

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/07/17/offbeat.coffee.ap/index.html

    I can’t wait for the Hooters of divorce attorneys or vasectomy reversals.

    @ 4:01 pm on September 30, 2008

  12. @amandacobra — Cleavage + hot coffee = :(

    @ 4:09 pm on September 30, 2008

  13. The Hooters of 10-Minute Oil Changes.

    @ 4:30 pm on September 30, 2008

  14. hope you’re saying “he later became the school’s principle” tounge in cheek, as the principal is your pal

    @ 7:14 pm on September 30, 2008

  15. tongue in cheek not tounge

    guess i should spell things correctly before pointing fingers

    and why anyone ever agrees to an adjustable-rate anything is beyond me

    @ 7:18 pm on September 30, 2008

  16. Right you are, JRP. BTW, you might want to check the spelling of “tongue.”

    @ 7:18 pm on September 30, 2008

  17. done and done

    @ 9:44 pm on September 30, 2008

  18. I guess the old guys in the WaMu commercials were the ones who were right after all.

    @ 10:37 pm on September 30, 2008

  19. ^ I forgot about those. Apparently so did WaMu

    @ 1:01 am on October 1, 2008

  20. And, since there is already a Chase a mere 1/4 mile up the road at Caruth Haven, get ready for another desolate corner on Greenville, in one of those locations, very soon.

    @ 9:34 am on October 1, 2008

  21. I got kicked out of The Fare once – my claim to fame. OK, Central Market is nice. And there’s that donut place. But have things really improved since we have lost Mr. Chicken, Confetti, Elan/Tijuana Yacht Club, Mariano’s with the old Mariachi Bar, Don’s Showtime, The Tub Club, LaBare and going back – Whiskey River, Diamond Jim’s, Daddy’s Money, Cafe Dallas, T-TOT, The Krizbar, D&G Liquor, The Roma Motel and LouAnn’s? Lovers and Greenville was the locus of local color.

    I don’t think so.

    @ 10:14 am on October 1, 2008

  22. Let’s not forget about the original Regal Beagle in that spot as well.

    @ 2:00 pm on October 1, 2008