Showing posts with label Funny Cry Happy Gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funny Cry Happy Gift. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

LOST NEW YORK: FUNNY CRY HAPPY GIFT

On West 14th Street, near 6th Avenue in Manhattan once stood my favorite-named business in New York:  FUNNY CRY HAPPY GIFT.  It was run by a nice Chinese couple and if your idea of a "gift" was a really cheap "Hello Kitty" knockoff backpack, well, this was your place!  Sadly, they went out of business a few years ago.  I always meant to ask them, "HOW did you come up with this name?  Which names did you reject in favor of 'Funny Cry Happy'?"  Fascinating...but alas, one more bit of forever lost New York....