RIP Leslie Buck

1. Why is this of any importance to people living in Seattle?

   Quit trolling on Gawker for web content, or at least find shit that relates to a Seattle based website.

2. @1, um, WOW. It’s interesting to design nerds… Slog has proven to me that there’s plenty of those reading us.

3. totally had to google that….
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthora

4. Oh yeah. But most of us read this story in today’s NYT.

5. I thought it was interesting and went and read the whole article about the guy and the history of the cup. Neener.

6. More emblematic of New York City than the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty combined. I’m sad to hear they’re not that popular anymore. People who prefer a venti something from Starbucks to a cup of ‘regyuluh” from the newsstand are emblematic of a new, more corporatized, and thoroughly shittier New York.

   @1, it’s in the top five American industrial designs. Is that enough?

7. It would have been better in Comic Sans MS.

8. @6 where did you hear they are not that popular anymore? literally all of the roadside food or coffee stands use them, and some restaurants do for take out as well. maybe it’s just because i live in harlem, but i see a lot more people spending 75 cents on a small cup there than twice as much on the same thing at starbucks.

9. @8, the article mentioned that sales fell from 500 million in 1994 to 200 million in 2005, and implied it’s fallen quite a bit since then. They’re no longer a stock item at Solo, but can be special ordered. I’m glad to hear they’re still highly visible.

   I have a ceramic copy of one in front of me as I type this.

10. Many, many years ago I wrote an essay on the demise of the Greek gods, and how they eventually wound up in the Greek diners of New York City. There were Botula, Bolokrimo, and others. It seemed clever at the time, and this article in the Times this morning brought back many memories.

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