September 21, 2006
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The mystery is over!
And I'd never have guessed that's what the airplane portended: a combination convenience store/deli/one-chair hair salon.
From the Star-Telegram:
OFF THE GROUND AT LAST
Plane on display over neighbors' objections
FORT WORTH -- After a rather bumpy takeoff with the city of Fort
Worth, Jake James on Wednesday finally got his plane in the air.Mind you, the single-engine two-seater is not airworthy, especially
after city code officers made James cut off the top of the cockpit and
trim the vertical part of the tail.Then there are those things on the back that look like turbine engines but actually are small trash cans.
But James, 66, an accomplished hairstylist who knows little about
airplanes, never wanted to fly the turquoise-and-red-trimmed aircraft.He just wanted to hoist it on top of a 20-foot steel pole as part of
a remodeling effort to turn an old gas station on Montgomery Street
near the Cultural District into a convenience store, deli and one-chair
hair salon.Etc.
Comments (7)
very interesting.
i think it looks cool. i was hoping the store underneath would be something REALLY cool. oh well. i guess thats good enough ; )
i don't entirely know what you meant about being 'boffo' but it really worked, thank goodness.
Boffo = excellent.
Nice to have you visit!
Does one chair count as a salon? That seems to me to be the biggest stretch of this whole thing, although to be fair, we're talking about a man who thinks that an old airplane is the best advertising he can do, and since we're here talking about it, maybe he's right.. I don't think any of these speakeasy places that cut and color hair and run unlicensed out of your neighbor's garage or basement call themself "a salon". I think of them more as "hair places." This is marketing gone amuck.
"Let's see, I'll take $20 worth of diesel, 2 Milky Ways, a cherry Icee, and while you're at it, let's see if we can't get these roots to match the rest of my hair color." An odd combination of business if there ever was one.
This has definitly got me giggling. Too funny. See you weren't the only one wondering what is going on. Neighbors can be so stuck up. Our church purchased a house next to it and one of our neighbors kept going to the city meetings where we were trying to get different zoning things taken care of and kept complaining about the churchs school. WE DON"T HAVE A SCHOOL!!! I still think he thinks we have a school and yet there are no kids there except when we have church. Oh well. People will try to make everything so complicated. Whatever happened to I found this land it is mine and I will build a house here. A stake marked the spot and everyone said okay. No permits nothing. Just built and walla you had a home. AAHH the good old days. That I wasn't around for. I am glad he has an airplane on top of his shop. It looks cute and it put snooty people's noses out of joint. HEe Hee!
Well, dang I was hoping it would at least be a pub where WWII vets could hang out and swap tall tales.
Boy, wouldn't THAT have been cool?
Nope. Deisel, cherry Icees and root touch-ups.
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