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Old 05-15-2008, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by PuntLemon View Post
I'll always remember reading a blurb in a local publication about a major Manhattan high end retail CEO who came down to Philly to scout a location. The limo stopped somewhere in Center City and the CEO didnt even get out of the limo.Took a quick look around at the demographics, apparently unimpressed, he told the Limo driver to immediately turn around.
That blurb was an anecdote in one of Herb Lipson's "Off the Cuff" editorials, the first thing you see when you open the cover of Philadelphia magazine. I read that same editorial. I don't know whether it's advancing age or what, but with rare exceptions, Lipson has little nice to say about much of anything. Read his editorials enough, and you'll be convinced the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

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