It has come to this
February 16th, 2009
A sign on the door of the empty Mervyn’s store at Southdale. It’s begun: they’re rounding them up for Soylent Green!
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18 Responses to “It has come to this”
February 16th, 2009
Posted in Ephemera
I was sorry to see Mervyn’s close. The initial store was in San Lorenzo, CA and I shopped there from the time I was a kid until they moved to Southland Mall in Hayward. They were my “staples” store for clothes for my whole family.
Very sad.
The Whitcomb could stand to do come copy-editing on “it’s” website. Among other things, “Will be renamed…in 2007″ doesn’t make a lot of sense in 2009.
…posted in the wrong damn place.
I recently read that the Morris Family (Mervin Morris was the founder, but the signmaker misspelled the name when making signs for the original store) recently reacquired the Mervyn’s name in hopes of reviving it to some extent. They left the Pacific Northwest a couple of years before they went under, and there are still several empty former Mervyn’s stores in the area (although the one here in town next to the Target store got turned into a Kohl’s after the Mervyn’s closed, and another one nearby turned into a Korean grocery store.)
Is that ‘Senior Parent’ as in high school seniors who have parented a child or is it the ’senior’ of two parents, e.g. the elder of a set of parents and if so, why can’t the ould dears be warehoused together? What’s the harm in that?
Mervyn’s came in to replace the Upton’s stores that failed here in Georgia a few years back. They were very mediocre and struggled to make a go of it. Most of the Mervyn’s were replace by Kohl’s which are pretty utilitarian and the Women’s clothing is oversized. Everything is on sale immediately upon arrival–you know the drill.
I was a long time Mervyn’s employee from 1986 to 1997 in the Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks California stores (in the shoe dept). I just found out a couple of months that they went belly up (I live in Maine now)and it was a really weird feeling when I heard htey were no more, even though it had been a long time since I worked there, I guess cause I spent such a big part of my life there, made a lot of friends there (and still in contact with many of them)and drank a LOT of alcohol with them at various off site functions. (OK a couple of times I came in a bit buzzed to work, stayed in the backstock area for my shift) Mervyn’s was and will be an integral part of my life.
Kinda sucks they have to turn the old stores into meat lockers for dead old people. Hopefully it’s all fromnatural causes and not stored there before their time to go.
At least we can have a few more years of your wit before you’re rounded up when Nat turns 17.
I object strongly to the continued distortions and downright lies that are continually perpetrated against the Soylent corporation on the basis of one delusional outburst in a homeless shelter.
Once again, to set the record straight, Soylent Green is people. People dedicated to making the finest, healthiest soy-lentil and plankton-based food products in the world. We put our heart and soul to the task of feeding a growing world under the strictest quality-control guidlines and supervision.
We at Soylent are damn proud of our delicious and nutritious products as well as our contributions to the community like the newly dedicated William R Simonson Sr Home for the Elderly and the William R Simonson Sr recycling center – the largest, most technologically advanced unsorted solid waste disposal and recycling facility in the nation.
Please stop besmirching a fine company and its people and remember to make Tuesdays your Soylent Green day.
“Mervyn’s is Southern California” (and Soylent Green is Peeeeeplllleee!)
You are quite right. Here’s a little song in your honor.
_@_v – hey at least there’s none of that e-coli in soylent green… though once more hollywood starlets work their way into the system there’ll be a greater botulism risk on acount of all the botox injections they get…
I’m seeing Edward G. Robinson, and hearing Beethoven’s 6th Symphony…
Three cheers for the Trek sample
A great way to start the day.
Soylent Green is Keyser Soze’s sled! His sled!!
Between this sign, the insane number of cars abandoned in the portion of the parking lot that “belongs” to the empty Mervyn’s, and the old people’s voices I could hear booming out from the center of the mall while I was in Ulta on Saturday, I decided to not venture inside the mall any further for fear of what was going on to the poor senior parents. Never before had I been creeped out by Southdale (and I used to work in one of the stores and had to leave late at night on occasion)…until this.
I’m facing my 63rd birthday this year, and its obvious you don’t know how frightening that sign is.
Shopped at a So. Cal. Kohl’s the other day. One of the store managers informed me Kohls just purchased 30 Mervyns stores. Another acquisition in the land of milk and honey, buyouts, bailouts, bankruptcies, mergers…….