Monday night, I was coming home from a saxaphone serenade at Prohibition Room about 11 p.m. on rain-slicked, darkened streets and I drove north along Classen to where it meets Grand Blvd.
As I came around that turn to the East, of course I noticed the “Classen Curve” sign for the new shopping area that’s going in.
Perhaps because it’s getting close to Halloween, I also noticed the cemetery.
I know that cemeteries always make ME want to spend money — while I still can.
And, the thought came to me that it will be a big boost to the retailers there to be next to the cemetery in the same way I’m sure it helps the restaurant to be known as Pearl’s graveside — funerals? Yum!
You know, the record store could sell death metal.
I can see someone wanting to get a new bag and a pair of matching shoes with Daddy’s inheritance. And, another pair of those black pumps for the funeral while we’re shopping.
Maybe an Ann Rice book store next to a voodoo kiosk selling grave clay and headstone rubbing kits. An All-Things-Goth boutique could be a hit.
Non-stop showings of Zombieland? Why not?
Marketing genius!
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