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Walking weather leads to discoveries

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Last evening after work I went for a walk downtown and noticed a three new businesses.

First, on North Queen Street we saw a sign advertising restaurant space. It would be great to have a neighborhood place to grab some grub. Here's to hoping it's open after 6 p.m.

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Less than a block after the restaurant space, there's signs all over a vacant warehouse right next to the train tracks. More loft apartments. Sounds like a cool idea. Here's to hoping the rent is less than $1,000.

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Finally, we were walking up North George Street and saw a sign saying a new restaurant is coming to the former MB & Company, 19 N. George St. There's a press release taped to the window that says the new place will be called Bistro19. I took a picture of it (I didn't have a notebook with me) but it turned out a little blurry, so here's a staff file photo of MB & Company, which opened in August.

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Gone before I tried it

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Eating here was on my to-do list.

I should have gone sooner. There is a large sign at YaYa's Restaurant, 887 E. Market St. put up late this week. There's been a smaller sign on the door for a while, but I didn't stop to read it until today.

The big paper sign, dripping with today's rain, announces "All restaurant equipments for sale. Walk-in or call 542-4405."

Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

I shouldn't have waited, especially in an economy like this one. Click on the jump to see a picture that makes me wish I hadn't skipped lunch today.

In praise of thrift stores

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I was browsing Rescue Mission's thrift store downtown today and found this on a rack of local vintage furs.

The one in the picture is marked as being from Andes Furs. The downtown York fur shop closed in 1993, according to our newspaper archives.

Finding things like this are part of the reason I enjoy shopping at local thrift stores. It makes me think about old downtown York, and American downtowns in general.

Just about every thrift store has a rack of furs, probably because they've gone out of vogue with some people. I tried on a black fur. It was sturdy and near perfect -- they don't make coats like it anymore. Inside the coat was a surprise: a fantastic swirly print silk lining. It was lovely.

I was sold, but then I turned to look in the mirror. I couldn't quite pull off the trumpet sleeves. 

But it wasn't a wasted trip. I learned something about York. I wrote down the address of the shuttered fur store from the archives. The next time I'm out exploring I'm going to see what's there now.


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