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Apr

17

Nutter: Turn City Hall Into World’s Largest Automat

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The mayoral candidates all have plans to save the city, but Michael Nutter might have hit the nail on the head (or other clichés) with his newest proposal. One of his proposals is, if he’s elected mayor, he’ll launch an official line of Philadelphia-themed gear.

Of course, this is a great idea, since if anyone should be ripping off tourists at insanely high prices for crap gear, it should be the city, not independent vendors. Nutter says his “Philly Gear” plan could earn the city $1 million in revenue a year. It’s modeled after NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan for New York-themed gear; he thinks the original five boroughs could get $20 mil a year in revenue.

Nutter isn’t done there, though. It’s not just t-shirts and hats, please.

“Street signs, fire hydrants, there’s all kinds of novelty things you can do,” Nutter said. “We should have a restaurant on the first floor of City Hall. This is the sort of innovation we need.”

Correct. Every time I walk by City Hall, I think, “Damn, what this permanently under construction building needs is a restaurant in it. Ooh, maybe another Applebee’s!”

Update: And here’s New York City’s store.

Nutter envisions a Philly line of goods [Inquirer via Philebrity]
 
dmac | 1:32 PM | 2 Comments
2007 Mayoral Race, City Hall, Michael Nutter, Philly Self-Loathing
 
  1. matt katz Says: Apr 17 4:44 PM

    Your make-shift Philly love T-shirt doesn’t quite work. Check it: http://adhdesign.com/philly.html

  2. ADHD Says: Apr 17 5:01 PM

    I like Nutter, but I like our designs better. Nutter, why don’t you just hire us to make your Philly novelties, we know what looks good and how to design them. Novelties are our game. The three adhdesign.com owners are current or X-novelty designers.
    http://adhdesign.com/catalog.html

    PS-thanks Matt for the shout out!

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