Entries from SFist tagged with 'gap'
July 15, 2008
Things got a wee bit heated at last night's Presidio Trust Public Board of Directors Meeting. The hot topic about was that art museum thingy we most likely never plan on visiting, but sure sounds swell nevertheless. Anyway, according to Jim Herd, who snapped the above shot, Newsom addressed the crowd, and then he was loudly booed when he finished. Tough crowd, tough crowd. (Read more about it here.)......
Continue Reading "Photo du Jour 170"June 10, 2008
The fight over the Presidio may come down to fisticuffs: Gap founder Don Fisher is trying to build a museum near the main post of the Presidio, while many San Franciscans aren't too happy about that. According to the Chron, besides the museum, a "119-room hotel, which also will include meeting space, a restaurant and a bar, expansion of the old Army movie theater [into]... two new theaters, a bar and lobby; and the creation......
Continue Reading "Money Can't Buy You Love, But It'll Buy a Museum"March 14, 2008
The maker of those little tree-shaped air fresheners you find dangling from rear view mirrors have sued Gap Inc. over Old Navy's use of the iconic image in a t-shirt, emblazoned with the slogan "Keeping it Fresh." The federal lawsuit, according to the Examiner, was brought against the local retail mammoth in U.S. District Court in Syracuse, N.Y. The company, simply titled Car-Freshener Corporation of Watertown, claims that "the design on the T-shirts is......
Continue Reading "Old Navy Sued Over Pine Tree-Shaped Air Freshener Shirt Design"December 12, 2007
Granted, Gap, Inc. will one day tenderize, marinated, season, sear, let rest, carve, and then eat your first born -- that is, if they are in fact as diabolical as we're led to believe -- but their store's window (at Powell and Market) is most stellar. Here's an image of it in all its vertical multi-colored glory. An added bonus: the Hitchcockian silhouette. Image credit: Dead Slow's Flickr page (which we recommend for choice......
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