STREETSCAPE: Betty Boop and a Booplet
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
Boll Furniture is going out of business after almost 70 years in operation in downtown Charleston. This is a loss, especially since Boll had one of downtown’s few rotating window displays, which have always made it interesting to stroll by their Virginia Street storefront (Christmas has especially been a treat). In its going-out-of business sale, the store has dug up some seriously strange acoutrements for purchase, including this Betty Boop and Booplet umbrella stand.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:03 am
[…] One regrets to see venerable downtown Charleston institutions like Boll Furniture run a white flag up the pole and surrender to the brutal exigencies of the marketplace. But there you have it after more than 70 years. The Boll building, the corner of Virginia Street and McFarland Avenue, is festooned at the moment with comic book-colored signs announcing its liquidation sale and some strange stuff out for sale from the vaults. (I’ve photoshopped up the saturation on this shot to match the signage.) Note the actual human being manning the sign at lower right — he was a Memorial Day laborer Monday afternoon, bobbing for liquidationeers. […]