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rfmcdonaldTouring One thing Honest Ed's with my parents earlier this month, one year before the discount store's planned closure, one feature that stuck out at my was the sheer volume of kitsch. There's plenty of worthwhile items to buy, but there are also oddities, lacuna, an abundance of options for potential humour.
Take these stautes of bears sitting on fish.
There's also inadvertantly religious kitsch, here of ranked lines of statues of the Holy Family.
This was a depressing in-store hair salon.
Some merchandise I might not be disinterested in. Take this shirt.
More common were items like these bright nylon ties, available for just $C 3.69 each.
The place remains a shrine to Ed Mirvish, particularly to his connections to the world of the theatre.
The stars advertised, though, are long-faded if not gone. Take Lauren Bacall.
The same is true for the musicals advertised by the posters: Les Misérables ...
... and Rent ...
... and Pride & Prejudice.
Take these stautes of bears sitting on fish.
There's also inadvertantly religious kitsch, here of ranked lines of statues of the Holy Family.
This was a depressing in-store hair salon.
Some merchandise I might not be disinterested in. Take this shirt.
More common were items like these bright nylon ties, available for just $C 3.69 each.
The place remains a shrine to Ed Mirvish, particularly to his connections to the world of the theatre.
The stars advertised, though, are long-faded if not gone. Take Lauren Bacall.
The same is true for the musicals advertised by the posters: Les Misérables ...
... and Rent ...
... and Pride & Prejudice.
