Webb's City Mermaids
by Jonathan Morrill
Original - Sold
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$300
Dimensions
16.000 x 20.000 x 0.500 inches
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Title
Webb's City Mermaids
Artist
Jonathan Morrill
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Webb's City was a one-stop department store of sorts that was located
in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was touted as "the World's Most Unusual Drug Store".
It was founded in 1926 by James Earl "Doc" Webb in a building 17 by 28 feet.
At its peak Webb's City had 77 departments and measured about ten city blocks.
It was considered a forerunner to the shopping center.
As shopping centers became popular, business dwindled at Webb's City.
It was eventually closed in 1979.
Doc Webb's philosophy regarding to Webb City was "stack it high and sell it cheap." This similar philosophy years later led to the success of Sam Walton and his Walmart empire.
The famous talking Mermaids, one of the most different and outstanding of many attractions at the World's Most Unusual Drug Store.
The mermaids were modified mannequins set in a diorama depicting their seaside retreat
in an ocean cave, complete with a treasure chest.
Off to one side, for knowing parents, and grandparents, was a little booth,
in which names of the children could be given to the person inside the booth,
who would read the names of the children, much to their amazement,
as it appeared to the children that these mermaids knew them.
As the years went by, the maintenance fell, the cobwebs grew,
and the charm of this effect became less pleasing, and more horrifying.
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March 21st, 2019
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