Instead, the ceiling is another, easily overlooked, bit of hyperlocal flair -- it's designed to look like bowling lanes, complete with lighting replicating the lane arrow things. I have no idea if the ceiling is made of the actual bowling lane flooring from this building, but it would sure be cool if it was!
As a side note, why is it that I always get this song stuck in my head whenever I talk about something being on the ceiling? I never even listen to it otherwise! I only know it because it used to play on the Canadian radio station my dad and I liked when I was growing up.
There's always Paul Simon's 'One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor'. I'm not sure how that fits into things, but I suppose it's appropriate when a store has wood in the ceiling, lol.
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I know we've discussed pharmacies on here before and discussing CVS might be appropriate in a Target post.. You might be interested in seeing the inside of one of CVS's 'CVS y más' concept stores targeting Hispanic shoppers. The Houston Historic Retail blog did a recent post about it: https://houstonhistoricretail.com/2021/01/31/que-mas-is-cvs-y-mas-what-more-is-cvs-y-mas/
Huh, that's an interesting concept! Kind of looks like the only thing they took from Hispanic stores was a discount store aesthetic, with those pallet displays and such...
DeleteYeah, I can't explain the pallet displays at that CVS y más. Surely they aren't driving a forklift around that CVS so I'm not sure why they left the pallets out. I suppose it's to emphasize their large inventory of toilet paper, lol.
DeleteNice catch, I don't think I would have noticed that if you hadn't pointed it out! Also, I love that song... but I didn't realize it was quite that old, if you heard it growing up (and you're the same age as me, haha!)
ReplyDeleteI didn't think it was that old either, but it's from 2012 and I moved out in 2015, so I guess that makes sense... makes me feel old, haha! And yes, I assume we're pretty much the same age...
DeleteWow -- yeah, that's almost 10 years ago now... yikes XD
DeleteSeriously... especially with this last year, my sense of time is all messed up.
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