Drug Shop on Fulton Street / Franklin ?

Subject: stop ill-informed rumor-mongering

I think it's incredible that the OP assumes that the only way a random store can stay in business is by selling drugs. I go to the record store you speak of on a regular basis and have spent hundreds of dollars there. There are really rare records if you are willing to dig through them. The man who owns it is one of the nicest people I've met in the neighborhood and I've never once seen anything mildly illicit happen inside. He's been there forever and has stories about how neighborhood musicians like Mr. Cee, Easy Mo Bee and X-Clan used to come in to dig soul records.

The restaurant I cannot speak on, I've never gone in.

i wasn't expecting much of a response really... but since you all are here, it's time for some snarky chit-chat!

bknest wrote: That record store does not sell drugs and neither does the cd store on st.james and fulton. How does he maintain? I don't know, but I KNOW he doesn't sell drugs out of there. The restaurant does serve food, I know they jerk their chicken on the split oil can grill that's in front. Please be careful when you make speculations with out knowing facts. It's not fair to the businesses whether you patronize them or think their eyesores.

i SWEAR i have never seen anyone behind the counter of that restaurant. everything in there looks so neglected, stagnate, like nothings been touched in a decade. there are never any drinks in the glass fridge, the lights are always off and HAVE YOU SEEN THAT GUM IN THE GUMBALL MACHINE??? at any rate, when's the last time you've had a meal there? it looks like nothing's been served there since 1976... i am mostly just really confused by the place.

i agree about your opinion on speculations, but to be fair, i never presented my speculations as facts. it was an inquiry... can you really fault me for not knowing and asking? cut me some slack. educate me - let me in on something. that's why i made the post. i don't get the high horse some people came riding into this thread on (not you though, you were pretty nice about it)

u dummies wrote: idiot.. just because theres not white smiling faces running in & out of the mentioned locations buying bottles of imported wine does not make these locations drug spots. i've actually seen japanese hipsters(yes theyre hipper than the white ones) coming out of that record store with stacks of rare grooves. if your new to the neighborhood u should try walking into each business establishment and actually seeing what they have to offer. If your a cultureless saltine from the midwest etc. and this is your first "urban" experience dont be so quick to judge what u know nothing about.

listen here, ya dip, you don't know me! i'm not white or a hipster, but thanks for playing. i never commented on the race or assumed background of the people coming out of the "record store" (i don't even see anyone coming out of the record store, tbh). i commented on A) the dark, desolate restaurant that looks like it's neither stored nor had food cooked there in decades and a dark record shop below the restaurant where i've seen no one buying records from EVER. i've passed by that place multiple times a day for the past 7 months, so stuff it, turkeyhead.

it's not farfetched to think that, since this area was a hotbed for drug activity at one point, some remnants of its past may still exist... i've heard gun shots at night, homie. just because you choose to not acknowledge something doesn't mean that it doesn't or can't happen. be proud of your neighborhood, but don't kid yourself.

anyway, i'm not going out to 'explore' some dark, customer-less, suspicious looking basement store. i got enough problems. and for the record, i do patronize various stores on fulton street -- what is your point?

actually, the real question is 'what was my point in replying to you?' goodness...

Anonymous wrote: I think it's incredible that the OP assumes that the only way a random store can stay in business is by selling drugs. I go to the record store you speak of on a regular basis and have spent hundreds of dollars there. The man who owns it is one of the nicest people I've met in the neighborhood ... He's been there forever and has stories about how neighborhood musicians ... used to come in to dig soul records.

The restaurant I cannot speak on, I've never gone in.

i smile at the white-haired dude that hangs outside of that record store and say hello to him daily and the bitch says nothing back! i'm sweet as candy and cute as a button, so i don't know what his problem is, but that's neither here nor there.

the background info you gave on him and his store is cool though. i appreciate it. i'm not being sarcastic either...

and yes, i would assume that a store would need to sell things in order to survive. silly me -- here i am thinking about paying rent, livable wages and the idea that people have stores to sell products to :drumroll: customers (that i've personally never seen) perhaps they makes $200,000 per year in profits using the record store as a front to sell homebaked chocolate chip muffins. or maybe he owns the patent on Slinky's... what do i know? the only thing i'm semi-sure of is that that they don't ***APPEAR*** to be making a killing selling albums.

putnam-denizen wrote: I myself don't understand the economics of many small stores. Expensive boutiques with three dresses on the rack would imply that something else is going on as well. ... I would imagine that rents on Fulton Street are still pretty low. And if someone owns the building outright I guess they could do what ever they wanted there

good points... i especially like the comparison to expensive boutiques and the fact that the restaurant/store may be owned outright. something for me to think about. thanks, tis interesting.


anyway, despite the tone of some of the posts in this thread, i am able to overlook the meaness and learn something from them. ; ) mission accomplished.