It was only a matter of time after they opened one up on Hollywood Blvd. Does anyone know if they plan on putting something else in that space already?
They've got a %40 off clearance sale--I found some good deals, but Virgin's prices are so ridiculously marked up most of them aren't much better than what you can get off of Amazon.
They've got a %40 off clearance sale--I found some good deals, but Virgin's prices are so ridiculously marked up most of them aren't much better than what you can get off of Amazon.
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Thu, January 17, 2008 - 11:47 PMThat's two enormous vacant spaces in that complex. The theater manager said maybe a Trader Joe's would be going into Sam Ash, but that would make the parking hellacious... it'll be interesting to see what else comes in. The Virgin store was the big destination the place was built around.
I have no love for that store- too mainstream product- but I'll sure miss the book department. And too bad on principle that the only remaining big record store in the area is gone, aside from Amoeba. Times they are a-changin'. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Fri, January 18, 2008 - 2:07 PMYeah I used the Megastore purely to buy a magazine so I can get my parking validated when I go to eat on the Strip. I wonder if the validate at Buzz coffee......?
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Mon, January 21, 2008 - 11:25 PMI used to like watching the Hall of Fame inductions from the window in my office...too bad Virgin's not going to be in on the action anymore. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Wed, January 23, 2008 - 12:58 AMTalk about defunct L.A..,that place (faux Kodak-center?)should have never been built(look across the street,the Greenblatt's,Comedy club,etc. building/architecture),they tore down the fabulous Schwabb's.Don't you love to hate this town sometimes?Glad that the Amoeba is the only game in town.
Maybe in 50 more years they'll rebuild the Schwabb's and put a tower on it. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Wed, January 23, 2008 - 11:34 AMI don't remember anything too spectacular about the architecture of Schwab's, other than the iconic neon sign on the front- it was a pretty boxy building by itself, although certainly more interesting for many reasons than what replaced it. But in the same complex was the original Googie's- namesake of Googie style, which was all psychotic zigzags and angles and pretty fabulous. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 7:57 PMSchwabs may have been boxy, but it was historic, even if Lana Turner wasn't really discovered there.
Does anyone remember Lady Snow's, the headshop, that was around the corner, down the hill on Crescent Heights a bit? -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 10:39 PMNo,but i do remember Numbers across the street.Always a hoot,before or after a (the best and STILL available )piece of applepie w/whipped cream)@ Greenblatt's.
My memory off that building was deco/30'ish. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Thu, February 14, 2008 - 2:41 PMThere are a lot of pictures of the original Schwab's, the one from Sunset Boulevard, but I had to look hard to find this one, and this website was the only place that had a picture that I could find.
www.hollywoodphotographs.com/search.asp
It was a sort of pinkish-clay colored cottage cheese stucco, that I vaguely remember as having gold glitter flecks in it. There were a couple panels of mosaic stripes at street level. But the sign was the thing that really stood out about the place. The "Steak N Stein" sign was where Googie used to be. I think it ended its days as a beauty supply store. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Sat, March 8, 2008 - 11:29 AMTrying to remember the chronological order of shops by years, but that's another job.
I remember: Schwab's. Googie's, Sherry's, Zeidler&Zeidler, Baskin Robbin's, Steak n Stein,
and in the 70's a headshop called "Lady Snow's Smoke Menagerie" -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Sat, March 8, 2008 - 4:42 PMI think Lady Snow's and Baskin Robbins made it through to the bitter end, or close to it; also the BBQ place (name, anyone?) that eventually moved across the street to the NW corner and renamed itself the Coconut Teaser. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 1:38 AMChris’ N’ Pitts’? -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 1:34 PMHmmm... I remember Chris N' Pitts, but as a chain, and not at that location, or possibly not at that location any more by the 80s. I thought it had a different name, and was an independent joint, but I'm pretty fuzzy on this. I asked my friend with the photographic memory, and even she couldn't remember- too old, she said. -
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Re: Virgin Megastore West Hollywood RIP
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 1:59 PMTa DAAAH: Harry's Open Pit BBQ! I love Google.
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