No Ma… that’s Joy.Verl in the chair.Fashion plates, both.
The store name “bebe” isn’t French… the owner and employees way back when pronounced it “bee bee” and the awning said “bebebebebebebe” all the way around.
It was part of a Polk Street renaissance of sorts…a street of hardware stores, restaurants, a few men’s clothing stores and the odd gay porn shop, also some drugs and male hustlers….
The low rents began to attract small vintage clothing and antique shops…then fashionable boutiques opened near us,…. we got bebe, and Valentino…fancier restaurants….
Then hip bars and clubs, which attracted drugs and crime again…
And now it’s back, somewhat, to its former squalor.
No Ma… that’s Joy.Verl in the chair.Fashion plates, both.
The store name “bebe” isn’t French… the owner and employees way back when pronounced it “bee bee” and the awning said “bebebebebebebe” all the way around.
It was part of a Polk Street renaissance of sorts…a street of hardware stores, restaurants, a few men’s clothing stores and the odd gay porn shop, also some drugs and male hustlers….
The low rents began to attract small vintage clothing and antique shops…then fashionable boutiques opened near us,…. we got bebe, and Valentino…fancier restaurants….
Then hip bars and clubs, which attracted drugs and crime again…
And now it’s back, somewhat, to its former squalor.