{"id":3201,"date":"2011-02-06T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2014-02-19T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T05:32:04","slug":"american-apparel-610-harden-street-early-feb-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"American Apparel, 610 Harden Street: Early Feb 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Apparel<\/i> was a clothes store on Harden Street, next to the old Hiller Hardware<\/a>. I gather that it served the young, hip, crowd, which is, um, not<\/i> me.<\/p>\n

In fact, for years, I didn't even know where the store was, just that it had a series of mildly risque ads on the back page of the local alternative weekly, The Free Times<\/i>. These were constant fodder for the paper's Rant & Rave<\/i> feature, as here<\/a>, for instance.<\/p>\n

When I went by on Saturday 5 Feb, there was still music playing from the store's door speakers, and two guys hanging around like they were supposed to be loading stuff out of there but couldn't get inside.<\/p>\n

Doing a little googling turns of the surprising (to me) fact that American Apparel (AMEX: APP) is the largest clothing manufacturer in the United States.<\/a>. They also seem to have had a good bit of financial trouble in their retail arm lately, as detailed in this WSJ piece<\/a> and this \"Open Market\" piece<\/a> (which also has an image of an ad they could never have run in Columbia..) <\/p>\n

The company's web site<\/a> goes even farther with ads -- DEFINITELY NSFW!<\/b><\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Jennifer)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 12 September 2011<\/b> -- The follow-on operation, Urban Thread & More<\/i> is open, and apparently has been at least since 16 April 2011:<\/p>\n

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