Commercial notes

[magid]

The Women's Union shop (356 Boylston St., Boston) is closing. I'd always intended to go in, just to see the store behind the wonderful swan entrance, but had never managed it until now. I browsed this afternoon, and there were a lot of pretty, interesting, even useful, things. The ones I liked most were still out of range even with the huge discounts, but it was fun to drool a bit. They're selling the fixtures as well as the things displayed, so there's a wonderful antique oval wood table with claw-on-sphere feet that wouldn't even fit in my apartment even if I could afford it... Anyway, they're open until June 5.

Black Ink is no longer on Broadway St., Cambridge; it's apparently an Asian import store instead. Next door to it, The Museum of Useful Things is gone, but it's moved to Harvard Sq. (on Brattle, almost across the street from Burdick's).

Marathon Sports (Mass. Ave., Cambridge) is as good a store as I'd been lead to believe. I went in to get new sneakers (the old ones are thoroughly dead after more than four years of use), and the first thing the salesguy did was watch how I walk, so he could bring out shoes that fit my feet and my walking style. Very cool. And he offered information throughout the time I was there. Interestingly, there was a new sales associate there, and her task was to try on yet more pairs of the many kinds of sneakers they sell, so she'll be able to sell them knowledgeably. Oh, and there was a free map with running distances around Cambridge and Boston that I got a copy of; now I know that the distance around Fresh Pond is 2.3 miles :-).

Note to Wolf: Market Basket had bags of five baby seedless cukes; they looked like you'd like them.

Comments

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Pickles?? :-)

[queue.livejournal.com]

Too bad they didn't have a map of walking distances, too.

[magid.livejournal.com]

;-P