BuildingScape: Boll-ed Over
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
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.
May 30th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I’m surprised they’ve been able to stay open this long, considering their prices.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hey, have you ever counted the number of McMansions in those hills?
July 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am
[…] The End is nigh for this fellow, it looks like, crossing Hale Street at Virginia. Crossing a street and reading a novel is an advanced urban skill. P.S. For more context on that sign, click here and here. […]