Friday 11 February 2011

A Touch Of Class


Gaudy, open fronted amusement arcades as found in seaside towns could learn a valuable lesson from their more sophisticated city centre cousins. A window display of dark velvet drapes juxtaposed with stunning neo classical white and gold vases adds class and elegance to the world of obsessive gambling.

8 comments:

  1. I was lured by the snack bar...
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  2. Yes but can you get jellied eels at the snack bar?

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  3. It nevertheless reeks of MArlbroro and Jaegermeister. The "snacks" are loosers' last exit ... "Take me home, sausage roll ..."

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  4. Scarlet the connoisseur of haute cuisine. No kipper surprise placed under your keen nose could lie about it's age!

    Not jellied eels MJ but congealed burgers with a mucilage salad, served by an Arthur mullard lookalike wearing a burgandy tabard.

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  5. It just screams class. "Let us help you do your pension cheque surrounded by our inviting "art tacco" environment.

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  6. It must be a classy joint; there are tassels on the big jug things.

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  7. Tassels on the big jugs... I'm not thinking what you meant, am I?
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  8. Before the smoking ban Mago, each formica table had a little tin ashtray of the type the proprietor didn't mind having stolen, so you could eat your "rock bottom" cake and enjoy a ciggy.

    Princess, The city centre are obviously catering for the scrobnobs with all these amusement arcades, tattoo parlours, cash4gold and cash converters shops springing up all over the place. It's soul destroying. I can't even buy a jar of hibiscus flowers in syrup where I live. Can you imagine that? I have to make do with nasturtiums from out the garden instead.

    Those jug tassel things are priceless ming dynasty vases XL brought back from china by Venetian explorer Marco Polo himself.

    Scarlet has a keen interest in tassel twirling, so I've heard!

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