All Starbucks to close: Dunkin Donuts Cashes In

[Sohrshah]

Gotta Love SoCal traffic!

[Gn2Dlnd]

Up to. Up to!

It's important to remain optimistic!

[cirquelover]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Yeah, but not in that order. I mean, I'd have to leave my apartment at like, what, 4:30 in the afternoon, swing around the corner to the Jack-in-the-Box, drive the 6 or 7 minutes to Universal to pick up CoasterMatt, go up Barham to Mulholland to watch this "sunset over the ocean" thing, go back down the hill to the freeway and Disneyland by 6.

That's just mean for all of us nonSocal people that would love to be able to do that! Although I'm glad you're there to be able to.

[CoasterMatt]

There's a Dunkin' Donuts less than 3 blocks from my house...

whoops - it's a Winchells, with a porn shop next to it

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I liked this part:

Actually, with that route, at the right time of the day, that might even be optimistic.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

There's a Dunkin' Donuts less than 3 blocks from my house...

whoops - it's a Winchells, with a porn shop next to it

Can I cum for a visit?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Alex

Fresno, CA
# of Starbucks: 27
# of Dunkin Donuts: 0

Result? Mathematical proof that Fresno, California, is in a first place tie for swankiest place on earth.

Yes but imagine this little thought experiment - replace each Starbucks with a Dunkin Donut - I shudder...

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Query: which is Swankier? A suburban Starbucks with a daily coffee klatch of moms with strollers and predictable smooth jazz or an independent coffee shop with a daily coffee klatch of wasted yutes, bad local art on the walls and--here it comes--bad coffee?

The bad coffee independent is swankier

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by blueerica

And I imagine my old Pee's is about to be slammed in a few hours...

How does one slam old pee?

Originally Posted by JWBear

Sounds like your talking about old Home Savings buildings.

Beat me to it! I ended up knowing quite a bit about the Home Savings murals because Millard Sheets did a few of them and his son, David, was a very good friend of ours and was on the Art is Public Places board for the City of Irvine, of which I was the City's representative. Home Savings was used often as a prime example of a good (and large) public art program. About the same time, Joan Irvine Smith opened a museum devoted to California Plein Air painting. I didn't know much about the movement before these two things happened and suddenly, my life was filled with more knowledge than I had ever desired on the subject.

I did get to go to Millard Sheet's house, Barking Rocks, in Gualala. Breathtaking house with the even more breathtaking view.

[CoasterMatt]

Well, the best way to drink pee would probably be to slam it down quick.