― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Zipperhead (407 South) will be closing by month's end.
The punk-rock-clothing store has been a tourist destination since opening in 1980.
Building owner Rick Millan says he and Zipperhead proprietors Rob and Stefanie Windfelder were unable to agree on a new lease.
Millan says he was offered twice what the Windfelders are paying by a New York clothing store. He declined to reveal its name or the current or future rents on the property.
Zipperhead, one of the longest-running businesses on South Street, was immortalized in the Dead Milkmen hit "Punk Rock Girl," and was also home to a 1994 rampage by singer Courtney Love in which she cursed at staff and stole T-shirts featuring the death certificate of her late husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)
OMG same here! I thought it was Zipper Head, like Makeout Point or something! Wow.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
it is -- but i don't think that the zipperhead owners meant it as such; i think that it was more a punk style reference/thingee.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)