Cutting Corners
Now that WaMu's been seized by the government (before being sold off to JP Morgan) is it too much to ask that we get all our corner 99 cent stores and bodegas back?
Photo from an old 1000 Bars post, lamenting the Brooklyn Bank Virus.
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