{"id":233,"date":"2008-02-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:31","slug":"when-flair-was-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/when-flair-was-king.html","title":{"rendered":"When Flair Was King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Bronks-package-store.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/2\/2f\/Bronks-package-store.jpg\/800px-Bronks-package-store.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>About a month ago, I drove past that ugly modern office building on the corner of Main and University, and struggled to remember what was there before.   Then, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Bronks-package-store.jpg\">this postcard<\/a>, and memories rushed back in.   No, I don&#8217;t think I was ever in Bronk&#8217;s (we were a Polar Package Place family; it was closer to our home), but its central location in Fargo and garish exterior would make it hard to forget.  I&#8217;m going to look through my archives and see if I can dig up any more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Bronk%27s_Package_Store%2C_Fargo_ND\">Bronk&#8217;s<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t remember seeing anything about it recently.   Today, garish exteriors are reserved for children&#8217;s restaurants and theme buffets &#8212; the interior of a liquor store isn&#8217;t inherently anything, let alone to be &#8216;themed&#8217; to attract customers.  Modern stores aim for neutral efficiency, and &#8216;vice&#8217; stores want to project professionalism lest they be called uncouth&#8230;but back in the day, when someone said to stop at the liquor store with the cowboy on top, you darn well knew where to go.  Bronk&#8217;s disappeared in the late 80s by my recollection, and was replaced by a law office building.  No cowboys on the top of the law offices, sadly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-545662995091022048?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I drove past that ugly modern office building on the corner of Main and University, and struggled to remember what was there before. Then, I found this postcard, and memories rushed back in. No, I don&#8217;t think I was ever in Bronk&#8217;s (we were a Polar Package Place family; it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[131,482,108,107,483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}