We React To Ads In Unplanned Ways: Fells Point Has Gone To The Tourists

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This is how Fells Point looked before the tourists took over. All the fun bars are gone, replaced with brand name restaurants, trendy shops and a hotel I never heard of.

The scruffy waterfront is postcard pretty to some but it is so packaged up for the sell, sell, sell I want to drop my wine bottle and vomit in the street. Damit I don't care about the "don't scare the horses visitors" rule.

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The reason for all this anger is simple. I had a boatload of fun down in Fells Point. A bunch of us would ride down, park, shoot pool, drink beer at a cheap price and have a blast. That was followed by sitting on the bikes till the cops got tired of watching us and left. At that time it was safe to go home by putting up S. Broadway to the Interstate. Work the next day was usually as rough as the starched shirt collar and got as ugly as the mandatory tie. BUT WE HAD FUN the night before.

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Present day: JFAC as one friend would say if he saw the current sanitized Fell Point. And before I forget I would like to thank the folks who put this editorial in my head.

First is http://adland.tv who posted an entry from http://workthatmatters.blogspot.com/ who in turn had an interesting commercial by a Fells Point area business.

Work That Matters: F'd Ad Fridays: Baltimore lingerie store ad turns ...: "It's awesome, in its own special way. Via Adrants"

---- Check it out because 1) it is a neat local ad, and 2) it should really be located down by the other business (see above image, Love Zone). In a more interesting time it would be and the place would be under sege by packs of college girls out for the weekend plus the so called biker chicks (Wife hates the term "property of" so I won't use it. It is just another stupid label. /derail)

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Some notes on this image:

1. B is the location of the shop in the ad. Kind of off the tourist route.

2. A is about where Love Zone was located. It is a pizza shop now and you can look it up. The area is one clean-cut hog trough.

We are walking ...

We are walking ...

We are walking ...

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The business, Accentuate Lingerie is located here (B). Since this is an old shot per Google Street View the store front of the new business is not shown. Watch the ad.

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So that is it. Amazing how a commercial can generate unintended reactions.

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