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Workers have to be careful when taking the signs off the building since they need to be transferred to the side of the stadium.

Was that building built sometime around 1918? That heat phenomenon was instituted in response to the Spanish Flu. That way there would be air moving to vent the virus out of the building.

If I was the person who initially built the building I probably would want the building to be named for another tenant. It was probably built as The Ebenezer or something but people in the 2020s insist on calling it The Chong.

Hey GME's back up to $250 from its 11AM nadir of $126. Puke and rally

I want to expand on this with a little more detail: Incident 1: Customer comes in with a Godzilla DVD set and the Amazon listing pulled up on his phone. 248 dollars! "How much you gonna give me for it??? Don't rip me off!!" I declined the item saying that it's going to sit forever. 10 minutes later I look it up on Amazon and it's $62. Incident 2: What movie to watch? Someone has an idea. It's called (whatever it was). Let's all pull it up on our phones so we can see what Rotten Tomatoes score it got! I make a "White Guys in their 20smatoes" joke and don't look it up myself. Well, nobody's listings match up. They're all different films with roughly the same name from all different countries. When a movie does match up the scores on different people's phones don't match up. Back and forth for 10-15 minutes. Open up the streaming service and find one of the movies with the same name. Is it the same one that got 100%. We don't know. We watch it anyway. We have to get all the way through it to determine it's not. Incident 3: Harvesting corn AKA "getting the corn off". Farmer and I are on the combine. We both pull up our phones to see how much we are going to get per bushel. Same website, same graineries, different numbers. Which is extra weird since graineries lock their offers for 3-4 weeks at a time so that everybody doesn't show up with their grain at once on an up day.

Phones don't match desktop numbers all the time. Phones don't even match other phones. Desktops match each other reliably. This goes for things like Amazon and eBay as well.

"Tech" being scammy and crooked? No way!

If you listen to fools, The Mob Rules

I wonder if anybody lived above The Chong in recent years or if it was just storage. Like, "You know where to find me. I live above THE CHONG."

I'm noticing an early 2000s theme here.

That wouldn't have helped in the GameStop example though. The company shorting it would certainly qualify as accredited, sophisticated investors while the individuals that bought it and raised the price were doing ordinary buys.

BTW, this is national news now. Not national stock news, your grandma knows news. This is what I was talking about in eroding confidence in The Market. The Market is not pleased.

Nobody will care if GameStop executives sell shares right now, will they? You would sell too if it happened toooo youuuuuu

Do tech bros follow you? Do they know what a Captain D's is? You know Captain D's is hot in the Uncool Crescent, Circleville and West Virginia.

Oh certainly. There was a Five and Dime in Woodsfield that had an epic basement. And the Downtown Columbus Lazarus (The Main Lazarus) has TWO basements that looked like subway stations.

It's weird today to think that Kroger would move into such an old building but it happened all the time in the old days.

The problem with GameStop in 2017-2019 is that half the store was $2.99. That was our problem too. The problem we didn't have that GameStop did is that we didn't have 5000 locations full of stuff that was $2.99. We had 2 locations and now we have one. Now those $2.99 games (besides sports) are worth $10 due to the secondary market deciding that used video games aren't worthless anymore.

Basically since the Robinhood crowd thinks about video games a lot as compared to boring companies that make industrial cleaning supplies or whatever makes GameStop stock more susceptible to these sorts of activities. And the short crowd despises B&M since it worships FAANG. Little did they know that video game demand is totally outrageous now and if there is supply it disappears immediately. Right now it doesn't matter if games are physical or digital or if the store is standalone or in a mall. Demand doesn't care. It wants product NOW because of the virus. It is not 2018 where Fortnite, Apex Legends and whatever other free downloads were hot at the expense of everything else except Switch. ALL video games are hot -- Atari to PS5. So hot that we are almost totally wiped out of games and systems since people are holding on to their old games like they're Faberge Eggs. Instead we are having to live off of Pokemon cards, DVDs, comics and Beanie Boos. Of course that will probably change by 2023, but it's where we are today.

^A good ol' Five and Dime

Oh I see, the building at the corner in the 1923 picture is at Race and 7th, not Race and Lhommedieu (?) Alley.

Man this is weird though. So they closed off the street to the north and built those buildings next to it after 1923? There's still one of those narrow Cincinnati alleys with curbs there now.

It seems so odd to take that amount of floors off of a building though. Sometime you hear about 1-2 floors coming off due to the top stories being wood with the lower ones being brick or block -- like if a storm ripped off the wooden floors or a fire happened. Or when church steeples rot.

Which means it can happen any time to any company. Which erodes trust in The Market.

Both companies' current valuations are caused by the same type of people.