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Apr 12
RIGA – After Pussylounge Bar, this Elizabetes street designer clothes store has one of the funniest names in the city. It takes its name from a 2001 movie “Blow” with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. The film – favored by the store’s owners – tells a story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s. I heard a story over the weekend that the owners are planning to open a store for kids clothes in the same neighborhood. They wanted to call it “Blow for Kids” until someone had convinced them to change the name to something else. Now they call their kids clothes store “Yellow.”
Jeremy
Apr 12, 2011 @ 07:11:22
Im kind of fond of this nightclub name as well. Maybe the clothing shop own this as well and are trying to start a ‘Blow’ franchise.
http://latvia-wtf.blogspot.com/2010/11/latvian-nightclubs.html
Joanna
Apr 12, 2011 @ 12:40:24
I am very pleased they changed the name for the kids one to Yellow. Blow for kids would not give the store a very good name outside of Latvia for sure and lead to all sorts of connotations. Just goes to show that fluency in a language is more than just knowing the words but the culture too.
Martin
May 30, 2011 @ 12:50:16
I was recently in the shopping centre in Jugla and noticed a store (i think it was clothing) called ‘Bimbo’…but Blow is pretty good too