Local Heartbreak, bankruptcy style

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Sometimes organizations fail, and you just don’t care that much.

Other times organizations fail, and you wonder why you care SO much.

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It’s a failure in the second category that’s making me sad today.

With Fountains of Wayne, Route 46 sustains its authenticity as the scenic route from the Hudson to the Delaware.

Without Fountains of Wayne, Route 46 is just another generic strip-mall-access-road, in Anytown, USA.

Is it so hard to make a business, in New Jersey, out of  garden gnomes, lawn furniture, plastic lawn deer, and the eponymous fountains?

In New Jersey? fow store.jpg

(Thanks to hometown site Baristanet for keeping track.)

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Harquail, C. V. (2009, April 24). Local Heartbreak, bankruptcy style. CV Harquail. https://cvharquail.com/local-heartbreak-bankruptcy-style/

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