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Menlo Park is probably the most diverse mall in the state. You get a little of everything. Race, ethnicity, and class and age.
Jersey Gardens is diverse but I've noticed there aren't too many white Americans. There's lots of white people, they just happen to mostly be Eastern European.
Short Hills and Bridgewater and Garden State lack in diversity both racially and economically.
Willowbrook is a little better, but its mostly kids.
Newport center and gsp are pretty diverse as well.
Woodbridge still has Lord & Taylor which is very high end.
Some reality for you:
>The salespeople at the L&T in Woodbridge do not treat customers in the same way that the L&T salespeople in their Westfield (my favorite L&T store!) do, nor are they even as pleasant as the L&T salespeople at that chain's Bridgewater Commons and Quakerbridge Mall stores. After 2 visits, I simply stopped going to the L&T in Woodbridge because the experience was just... not as pleasant as it should have been.
>Ever since L&T was bought-out by Canada's Hudson's Bay Company, their prices have come down a lot. It is not at all in the pricing league of... let's say... Saks, or Nordstrom's. In terms of pricing, L&T is typically just a tad higher than Macy's--but with MUCH better-quality merchandise than you would find at Macy's.
I have been shopping at L&T since the '70s, and I can tell you that L&T is NOT "very high end" any longer.
We are talking about fencing with a sword, right? Not fencing stolen property, because that could be really dangerous.
Yes, fencing with a saber, or an epee, or even one of those very light-weight foils.
On the topic of fencing merchandise, here is an amusing little story from the late '60s:
I knew a guy--Doug--who was really gullible, and who was constantly being cheated because of both his greed and his gullibility. One day, he arrived at my house to show me the brand-new "Omega" watch that he had just purchased from a random ghetto-dweller, in the parking lot of the Two Guys From Harrison store in Jersey City. Certainly that is where most discerning consumers would choose to shop for high-end timepieces!
Doug was just so incredibly proud that he had been able to score a brand-new Omega for... IIRC... $20, and he was confident that he had gotten the better of that ghetto-dweller. I took a look at his "genuine Omega", adjusted the hands in order to clearly display the logo on the watch's face, and was able to tell Doug that his "Omega" was actually a "Cimega".
I guess that he wasn't cheated TOO badly because that watch actually ran for about 2 weeks before a jeweler declared it to be an unrepairable piece of $5.00 junk.
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Yes, fencing with a saber, or an epee, or even one of those very light-weight foils.
On the topic of fencing merchandise, here is an amusing little story from the late '60s:
I knew a guy--Doug--who was really gullible, and who was constantly being cheated because of both his greed and his gullibility. One day, he arrived at my house to show me the brand-new "Omega" watch that he had just purchased from a random ghetto-dweller, in the parking lot of the Two Guys From Harrison store in Jersey City. Certainly that is where most discerning consumers would choose to shop for high-end timepieces!
Doug was just so incredibly proud that he had been able to score a brand-new Omega for... IIRC... $20, and he was confident that he had gotten the better of that ghetto-dweller. I took a look at his "genuine Omega", adjusted the hands in order to clearly display the logo on the watch's face, and was able to tell Doug that his "Omega" was actually a "Cimega".
I guess that he wasn't cheated TOO badly because that watch actually ran for about 2 weeks before a jeweler declared it to be an unrepairable piece of $5.00 junk.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to go to Chinatown to buy fake Rolex watches. They actually said Rolex on the face, but they too, broke within a few weeks.
Hey, if swordfighting is a sport, so is golf. At least a ball is involved in golf.
What two adults do behind closed doors is none of my business.
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