Urban Outfitters

[heironymouspasparagus]

You must be old, too!  You get it.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

You must be old, too!  You get it.

Yeah, I was thirteen when I bought a ticket to see Peter Frampton at the speedway in 1976.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Yeah, I was thirteen when I bought a ticket to see Peter Frampton at the speedway in 1976.

Oh.  Not that old then....

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Oh.  Not that old then....

Depends on how my knee feels in the morning as to how old I feel.

[Breadburner]

We Knee.....?

[DolfanBob]

Yeah, I was thirteen when I bought a ticket to see Peter Frampton at the speedway in 1976.

I was there and 15 at the time. What a hot and fun day that was.
Then the next year Waylon & Willie put and end to the speedway concerts. Country music rowdies trashed the surrounding neighborhoods and that was that.
Gladly I did not attend that one.

[RecycleMichael]

I went to both of these shows.

At the Frampton show, the lines were too long to go on the walkway between the infield and the stands so me and my friend decided to climb the 20 foot high fence. As I got to the top and crossed over, I lost my grip and fell to the ground. A bunch of people came to my aid and revived me with free beer.

I was more stupid then.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I went to both of these shows.

At the Frampton show, the lines were too long to go on the walkway between the infield and the stands so me and my friend decided to climb the 20 foot high fence. As I got to the top and crossed over, I lost my grip and fell to the ground. A bunch of people came to my aid and revived me with free beer.

I was more stupid then.

I missed both those shows....was still recovering from the Jimi Hendrix show a few years earlier....

[Red Arrow]

A bunch of people came to my aid and revived me with free beer.

I was more stupid then.

Maybe not so stupid.

[Vashta Nerada]

The Fall of the Hipster Brand: Inside the Decline of American Apparel and Urban Outfitters

http://www.racked.com/2015/3/3/8134987/american-apparel-urban-outfitters-hipster-brands

[tgra]

I drove by the other day & saw the new store! I've only order stuff online & never been into a real store.
I just heard rumors too that we're getting a trader joes!!!   

[DowntownDan]

I don't think it'll last more than 3-4 years.  Even hipsters are starting to think it's not so hip.  With their business model declining nationwide I find it strange that they would move to Tulsa, especially considering the investment they seem to have made by renovating the building and enclosing the entire third floor.

[DTowner]

I don't think it'll last more than 3-4 years.  Even hipsters are starting to think it's not so hip. 

Isn't that always the case with "hipsters"?  Pretty much by definition they are looking for the clothes/music/look no one else is wearing/listening/doing and anything that is widely popular is no longer "hip" in their eyes.  Stores like Urban Outfitters thrive by being nimble and adjusting to the rapidly changing whims of their target market - which is not really the hipsters, but the hipster wannabes and imitators.

The negativity towards Urban Outfitters on here surprises me.  I get it, if you're 50+ and wear khakis and a polo shirt to work every day, this store probably doesn't have much to offer you.  For a lot of 15-40 year olds, however, getting an Urban Outfitters is a sort of validation for Tulsa on the coolness scale.  I'm glad it's hear and believe it will help drive a lot of local and out of towners to Brookside that haven't been going there in the past. 

And, for what it's worth, I'm 50 and have been in the Tulsa store a couple of times and I think it has some interesting stuff in the same price points as Banana Republic and similar stores.  I even bought a pair of Vans (not the checkeredboards, that would be clichéd) - something I haven't done since college.

[carltonplace]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/24/us/ap-us-travel-neighborhoods-tulsa-hipster-revolution.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0



After Years of Mediocrity, Tulsa Emerging as Hipster Hub


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 24, 2015, 2:20 P.M. E.D.T.


TULSA, Okla. — Punching far above their weight, starry-eyed Tulsans have tried for years to demonstrate to fellow Oklahomans and outsiders alike that the state's second-largest city was more funky and less in a funk.