Monday 9 July 2012

Monday Murals: On the sixth day, God created Manchester


Amidst the late 1980s Madchester phenomenon, Leo Stanley created this popular slogan which was worn on many a best selling tee shirt. Leo and Identity had a shop here in Affleck's Palace.The full story's at: http://www.identity-manchester.co.uk/leo.php 


For out of towners, Affleck's Palace (known as just "Afflecks" now with neither palace nor apostrophe!) is a wonderful ex-department store. It used to be Affleck and Brown, the Harrods of the north: http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour4/area4page66.html

Since 1982 Affleck's Palace has been full of creative design, bright young things, vintage clothing, vinyl and vicissitudePart of Affleck's 30th anniversary has included some new mosaics, put up to replace the ones that were foolishly destroyed by Bruntwood when they took over the building in 2008. I'll show some of the others in future Monday Murals.
http://www.afflecks.com/


Mancunian Wave is linked to Monday Murals at the Oakland Daily Photo blog.

19 comments:

  1. I can see where this would make a good t-shirt!

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  2. Pretty creative sign for the town.

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  3. No wonder he had to rest on the seventh day.

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  4. and then man created a Short Street. Seems a bit lazy on Man's part!

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  5. LOL! - What fun - great story. Great capture

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  6. Nice mosaics, clever touch with the street sign. Glad you enjoyed the trip over at the weekend, good to see you all in York, with the exception of Great Uncle Bodie of course!

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  7. Definitely worth a chuckle! A great city slogan.

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  8. :)

    Wonderful piece. Please have a good Tuesday.

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  9. I really like this slogan.

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  10. Clever, funny, and endearing. Who wouldn't want to wear a t-shirt with this saying on it? Must be a favorite of Manchesterites. So glad the mosaic enshrines this saying. Thanks, Chrissy, for contributing to Monday Mural.

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    1. "Manchesterites"- nice one- they/we are better known as Mancunians, hence my blog's title ;-)

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  11. Affleck's Palace on Short Street sounds like a great place Chrissy, full of creative vibes, not to mention the vintage!!

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