Category: globalization
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Ateliers to Empereur
Les Sports Illustrés (Brussels, Belgium) moved from 3, rue des Ateliers to 12, rue de l’Empereur sometime between 1924 and 1926. Business must have been good. Added bonus, the one from Workshop Street, no. 188, has a story about some 1924 New York Giants barnstorming outside of Paris.
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OGC – Garcia Never Played Here
1011 The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.Longshaw Card Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 1960, artist unknown [to me] Look at those orange groves! Obligatory Garcia Content (OGC): I do not know Garcia ever to have set foot in this venue. Here’s a report from the Garciaverse #geo on Pasadena, CA: I love JGBP’s taste: Globalization’s taste, not…
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the downside of globalization
OK, I know that globalization has some very real negative consequences on some people who can ill-afford to suffer them. But let me just point out another downside of globalization: all that damn flopping in the NBA. Anyone who watched last year’s World Cup soccer match will recognize Manu Ginobili’s technique, for example — BAM,…