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Oh man - i lost a lot of years in there - i was just there last summer to play new Tekken and some Ms Pacman - it was exactly the same - this city is dying in many ways...Id hate to see a tourist trap 5 "I LOVE NY" t shirts for $10. and "lucky bamboo" stores.....eecchh
Oh man - i lost a lot of years in there - i was just there last summer to play new Tekken and some Ms Pacman - it was exactly the same - this city is dying in many ways...Id hate to see a tourist trap 5 "I LOVE NY" t shirts for $10. and "lucky bamboo" stores.....eecchh
The NBA STORE closed earlier this month.
Why?
Their rent was too damn high.
They say they are going to open up again in another location soon so hopefully that is the case and they are not closing down forever.
If the NBA cant pay the rent then who can?
I have been shopping there since day 1 when they first opened back in 1998.
I am going to miss that place.
Sad the poor fortune telling chicken is going to be homeless on the street or Kung Pao-ed.
oh i thought it was a "tic-tac-toe" playing chicken (and the game was rigged to have the chicken win 99 percent of the time). i'm being serious.
edit: buahahahahhh! i was right! http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html (broken link) don't you just love google? anyway iirc, that chicken box would say 'sorry bird brain. you lose' (or something like that) when you lost to the chicken, which is not mentioned in this article. hilarious article. (i had no clue those chickens were shipped all the way from arkansas. too funny)
oh, washington bullet, is that you speaking at 0:40 in the video? the guy says 'back in the day' alot that's why i'm asking
When I went in there last summer the chicken, not surprisingly was gone. His booth was still there, but no chicken. I asked the coin guy about the chicken and he said hed be gone for a while - As an adult, looking at the size of that booth, I felt bad for the chicken.
I really hate to think CTF is going to close - in the same block a ways up Sweet n Tart restaurant closed - THAT was a surprise considering the food was good/hot/cheap, and a huge place that could accommodate the waves of tourists that got winded walking uphill for 2 minutes. I used to love to sit there and order bubble tea and taro cake and practice my Cantonese with the Chinese teens who thought my grammatical errors were hysterical - but still an awesome time - man, things don't stay the same
When I went in there last summer the chicken, not surprisingly was gone. His booth was still there, but no chicken. I asked the coin guy about the chicken and he said hed be gone for a while - As an adult, looking at the size of that booth, I felt bad for the chicken.
I'll search for it later, but there was a NYT article that mentioned the chicken: some woman felt sorry for him and bought him. He now lives a happy life upstate where he doesn't have to worry about electric shocks on his feet! (How else did you think he always won tic-tac-toe?)
I'll search for it later, but there was a NYT article that mentioned the chicken: some woman felt sorry for him and bought him. He now lives a happy life upstate where he doesn't have to worry about electric shocks on his feet! (How else did you think he always won tic-tac-toe?)
well fom what i read, the tic tac toe chicken was taken to a massachusetts farm for rescue animals. as for the dancing chicken, i'll just haveto take your word for it that he/she lives on a similar farm but in upstate new york. i know nothing about the latter chicken's current whereabouts, but i did see it dance when i was young. i had no clue it was due to electric shocks.. not good.
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