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Title: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Youngstownshrimp on January 20, 2014, 04:09:26 PM
Billy, if that is your real name, Dennis, read up on this new 18 year old entrepreneur, who just opened up Sneakerville in you sacred Communist downtown.  What a slap in your faces, this KIDD, the real KIDD is the new generation capitalist to show you old socialist the AMERICAN way, the FREE ENTERPRISE system and how it made America!
This YOUNG genius is going to show you how to be productive and he will embarass the parasites of Youngstown, I am so impressed,  This Kid could be my son.  :)
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Peggy Gurney on January 22, 2014, 07:29:21 PM
I went and met him. Very energetic and intelligent young man.


He reminds me a lot of Brian, the young man who has autism who opened his own vacuum cleaner sales and repair business on Market Street.


It's good to see these young people making something of themselves, instead of running the streets.

Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: iwasthere on January 22, 2014, 07:43:32 PM
ytown shrimp i think you are losing your mind. bm and ibc are two different  people from different bckgrds. one is a simpleton while the other has a master plus in education.
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: AllanY2525 on January 23, 2014, 02:01:25 AM


Ron, is this store called "Sneaker Villa?". I did a Google search and found a match
for a store by this name.  A shoe store downtown that sells sneakers should be
successful - plenty of demand for sneakers with the college kids so close by.

Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: jay on January 23, 2014, 05:49:30 AM
There's also a demand for colorful synthetic alligator shoes.   That is why two other downtown stores sell them.

(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.luxist.com/media/2008/12/rlgatorloafered.jpg)
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Irishbobcat on January 23, 2014, 07:11:36 AM
Ron, what are you smoking? I think you have inhaled too many fracking well fumes..........

Hell, next thing you'll think I'm BG as well......God forbid if there are more than 1 person who is a liberal on this site......
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Youngstownshrimp on January 23, 2014, 07:18:46 AM
Good morning Dennis!
Speaking of inhaling, it may soon be legal in Ohio, you guys are doing one thing right  8)
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Peggy Gurney on January 23, 2014, 08:39:50 AM
Quote from: AllanY2525 on January 23, 2014, 02:01:25 AM

Ron, is this store called "Sneaker Villa?".


Nope it's Sneakerville. Brand new store at 25 W. Federal Plaza.
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: jay on February 05, 2014, 08:03:34 PM
The owner of Sneakerville should invest in a snow shovel.  The deep snow in front of the store's doorway was never removed today.
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: AllanY2525 on February 06, 2014, 12:25:34 AM


Did you mention that to anyone in the store?
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Irishbobcat on February 06, 2014, 02:13:00 PM
Maybe they have to sell one of their $160 sneakers first to afford a shovel. The sidewalk and entrance way is still not shoveled today.....

in fact it's really the only sidewalk not shoveled downtown.....maybe as kids they never had to shovel a driveway or sidewalk for their parents......
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Peggy Gurney on February 06, 2014, 07:33:02 PM
Well SOMEONE needs to say somthing to him.
Isn't downtown Yo in councilwoman Annie Gillam's district?
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: jay on February 06, 2014, 08:59:48 PM
Check out the sidewalk at V2.  It's nice and clean even to the street and corner.
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: jay on February 07, 2014, 05:09:58 AM
FYI

WFMJ will do several live remotes from Sneakerville this morning. 

Maybe someone could FaceBook them a message about the snowy sidewalk.   ;D
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Peggy Gurney on February 07, 2014, 07:18:51 AM
I gotta tell y'all, after seeing how expensive those sneakers are, I can't even afford to walk past that store.
According to this guy, the price is justified by the fact (according to him, it is a fact) that these sneakers will one day be collectors items.
Um I thought people bought sneakers to wear them, not sit 'em on a shelf?  Same goes for those shoes someone posted up ^ there.

I can justify the price if this was, maybe New York?  But this is Youngstown, where poverty abounds (for now).
Crazy!


Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Towntalk on February 07, 2014, 07:36:13 AM
wPawn Stars had a couple of eposodes about sneakers ... one where some guy brought in a pair of "collector sneakers" to sell, and another where the guys went over to a museum that jus specialized in "collector sneakers" who wanted to sell the museum for a million dollars. It's a strange world out there I'm here to tell you. On another show two guys run around buying all sorts of rusty junk and selling it in their store.
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Peggy Gurney on February 07, 2014, 08:51:16 AM
Unbelievable.   ::)
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: AllanY2525 on February 08, 2014, 05:59:19 AM
I have a buddy who served aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vincent in the navy.  Every time
his aircraft carrier would put into port in Korea, all ofmthe guys would buy HUGE
trash bags of Reebok shoes and bring them back home to sell.

He told me that he used to be able to get them for ** (get THIS ) **  a buck or two
per pair.

LOL

:D
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: Youngstownshrimp on February 08, 2014, 08:57:00 AM
Everytime I go to the Philippines to visit my mother, I have suits tailored, 13 years ago they cost $50, now they are up to $100.  This is the only way I can be Stylin' and Profilin'  8)
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: ytowner on February 09, 2014, 12:04:18 PM
Peggy,


These aren't shoes for you and I. These are unique sneakers and something the younger generation seems to be very much into. If you think you can go to this store and buy a $30-50 pair of shoes just to wear around, you are in for a rude awakening.


They have their niche. So instead of some demonizing them, let's wish these young men the best of luck. At such a young age, they have ponied up their money to invest in Downtown Youngstown and to aid in the revitalization of our city. For that, they should be commended!
Title: Re: "Sneakerville, the Capitalist new Generation"
Post by: iwasthere on February 09, 2014, 12:10:32 PM
let the buyer beware. same scenario when i bought my first designer blue jeans for ten dollars in the seventies, my parents hit the roof even with my owned earned money.