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Title: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: Shana A on November 29, 2010, 08:01:26 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 29, 2010, 08:01:26 AM
Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press
Associated Press November 28, 2010 01:37 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/28/national/a094415S53.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/28/national/a094415S53.DTL)
(11-28) 13:37 PST San Francisco (AP) --
Before Goodwill Industries opened its newest retail outlet here, no one would have argued that San Francisco had a shortage of thrift stores for its avid recyclers and trendy hipsters. What the city did lack was enough jobs for its transgender population, a group with an unemployment rate thought to be twice the California average.
So when a prime piece of commercial real estate languished vacant in the predominantly gay Castro district, activists and city officials saw an opportunity to put a dent in the problem. The result is the nation's first Goodwill, and perhaps the first store of any kind, designed as a jobs program for workers whose genders are different from the ones they had at birth.
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press
Associated Press November 28, 2010 01:37 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/28/national/a094415S53.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/28/national/a094415S53.DTL)
(11-28) 13:37 PST San Francisco (AP) --
Before Goodwill Industries opened its newest retail outlet here, no one would have argued that San Francisco had a shortage of thrift stores for its avid recyclers and trendy hipsters. What the city did lack was enough jobs for its transgender population, a group with an unemployment rate thought to be twice the California average.
So when a prime piece of commercial real estate languished vacant in the predominantly gay Castro district, activists and city officials saw an opportunity to put a dent in the problem. The result is the nation's first Goodwill, and perhaps the first store of any kind, designed as a jobs program for workers whose genders are different from the ones they had at birth.
Title: Re: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: tekla on November 29, 2010, 08:03:53 AM
Post by: tekla on November 29, 2010, 08:03:53 AM
Goodwill in the Castro? Oh god, I'm going to need body armor.
Title: Re: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: spacial on November 29, 2010, 09:31:52 AM
Post by: spacial on November 29, 2010, 09:31:52 AM
Bad is it tekla?
Title: Re: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: tekla on November 30, 2010, 04:50:45 AM
Post by: tekla on November 30, 2010, 04:50:45 AM
Oh no, the neighborhood - the first real gayborhood in the US- is, of course, absolutely fabulous. It's just full of pro shoppers.
Title: Re: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: spacial on November 30, 2010, 07:26:12 AM
Post by: spacial on November 30, 2010, 07:26:12 AM
I see. Never mind. The middle classes do think they need to keep up with fashion.
Still, it gives the rest of us a laugh.
Still, it gives the rest of us a laugh.
Title: Re: Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
Post by: tekla on November 30, 2010, 12:11:03 PM
Post by: tekla on November 30, 2010, 12:11:03 PM
Fashion in SF tends more anti-fashion, which makes Goodwill (Let's see if I can find five things that the original owners wouldn't wear at all and wear them all together at the same time) a gold mine.