1. That woman who jumped from an overpass onto Central yesterday, stopping traffic for two hours? She was delusional.
2. I’ve got a ranch in downtown Dallas. I buy diamonds by the ton. Chase cuties in my cadillac, drill oil wells just for fun. But when it comes to boots, I need a deal that will fit me right toe to heel, so I get my boots at — not at Western Warehouse.
3. Things aren’t looking so good. People are leaping to their deaths. Beloved shoe stores are going out of business. It’s enough to drive a man to drink. And, locally, that’s exactly what people are doing.
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My friend Michael is a photographer for Vogue UK and every year he comes here for SXSW but also to go shopping at the Western Warehouse at Royal and 75. There’s an old man there who fixes him up with boots and bolo ties and everything.
Fast forward to a Vogue UK launch a few months ago. Michael is on the red carpet for the launch and he’s wearing a shirt, boots and bolo tie he got at Western Warehouse. When people were shouting who did his outfit or who his stylist was, he just kept shouting “A lovely old bloke at Western Warehouse.”
Sigh. RIP Western Warehouse.
#3: “But customers are also downgrading their choices, he said, which offsets some of the profit. Those who usually buy Budweiser are buying Busch. Bud Ice fans are settling for Natural Light.”
Good God man…who are these crazy people? I thought Bud Ice stopped years ago.
#2 – Wow … hadn’t heard that jingle in years. That’s for the road trip back in time.
1. I guess she found her D-Spot… (truly tasteless, I know. but somebody had to go there)
2. I need a new belt, my other belts seem to be shrinking… Could it be a humidity problem in my closet?
3. Repubs are buying alcohol to ease their post-election sorrows. Dems are buying alcohol to mix with their Obama flavored Kool-Aid. I’m stocking up for the National Championship game between Florida and Texas!
Dang WW was a great place to get boots without the frills of the late Cutter Bill’s (and its Rex Cauble intrigue) and other frou-frou places — is that place still open in West Village?
Once in my oil boom Go Texan days in Houston someone thought I was a drugstore cowboy (um correct) but fortunately I had the remnants of a cow patty from Paris, Texas on the heel to prove him wrong.
I still have some boots from Mistletoe in Oak Cliff which are older than most people on this blog. Left them in an overhead bin once on AA and actually got them back.
Mistletoe still has a store in Grand Saline. So we quasi-cowboys with a chaw-for-show can still get a fix.
2LWWWooder:
M.L. Leddy’s is still open for business in FW and San Angelo. Some things shouldn’t be bought at warehouses.
Hey it wasn’t that much of a warehouse on Central and Meadow. There have been a few pros working there over the years. I don’t buy boots that often (see above Mistletoe reference) but the Luccheses I got at WW last have worn well.
But I am a drugstore cowboy, remember? Being a Dallasite I would never go to Fort Worth to buy anything (except Joe T’s enchiladas) but I do have a friend in San Angelo, so thanks for the tip.
It’s just not popular anymore to wear the western look! Just look at the Country Music Award shows. Women are wearing Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks, not Justin and Luccheses. Plus they will last you a lifetime. I’ve had mine for over 15 years and after taking them to Deno’s of Highland Park, they look like new.
WW going chapter 7? Add another log on the fire of faded radio jingles I can’t get out of my head.
You know, like…
“Hey Mr. Greenfield, what’cha got for me?
I hear you offer real economy…”
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